Teaching Reflections: Sharing Personal Narratives

Sharing Personal Narratives

I was glad that my teacher allowed the students to share their personal narratives today. I was surprised that so few students volunteered to have their personal narratives read out loud. The students stayed mostly on task as they walked around to read each other's personal narratives.

Inferring

While checking through my Good Reads account, I came across Officer Buckle and Gloria. I loved how my trade books teacher read the book. I remembered inferring my the students were so excited for the safety speech and knew that the students would enjoy the book. I knew which areas I wanted the students to infer at. They did pretty well, but they did not have any inferences at one of the places that I had hoped for a response. I was hoping to give them a test over this unit this week, but now, I don't think that they are ready. I never would have thought that it would be so difficult to teach students how to make inferences, I think that we naturally make inferences all of the time.

Speaking Spanish

At the end of the day, some of my Latino students started speaking Spanish. They were a little surprised when I knew part of what they were saying and laughed when I didn't understand all day. I heard todos and knew that that meant "all," but I somehow didn't hear the dias part. I told them that they had to speak very slowly and understand that when I was in high school, I was barely at a preschool level and that it has been a long time since I've spoken Spanish. They decided to try to speak Spanish to one of their peers, but he thought that they were talking about him. I told them to never lose their Spanish, because it will get their feet in the door for a job when they are my age.

Planning

My teacher and I found a few cool anchor charts over the weekend. After school ended, I created a few of the anchor charts that I want to use this week.
I am glad that my teacher gave me a math workbook to assign homework from. These worksheets have more space for students to work. Although I have found some pretty good homework assignments online, I am very happy with the workbook homework assignments.
It is weird how I've stayed up until 11:30PM or midnight for the past week while planning. I never would have thought that my every waking moment during the week would be spent on work. I wonder if this will improve once I have my own classroom for a while.

Array City

I was really excited when my teacher gave me permission to have the students do array city because we are learning about factors and multiples. I spent 4 hours cutting out the pieces. If I ever lead this activity with my own classroom, I will have my students use rectangular stamps to create the windows. I hope that the students enjoy this lesson.

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