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972 Journal: Parkway Elementary
September 20, 2017 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. (6)
September 21, 2017 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. (3)
Total
hours to date: 28.5
Summary of Daily Activities/Experiences:
-Helped Mrs. Travis make and distribute ID badges for students to their appropriate classes.
-Ran library classes while Mrs. Travis was helping students
in the computer lab.
-Continued to catalog and process new books and shelf them
accordingly.
-Looked up books for Accelerated Reader in Renaissance.
-Continued collaboration with Mrs. Friedrich on her country
project. I outlined lesson 1 and started
to pull books that would pertain to her project.
-Mrs. Travis and I met with administration about the Reading
Night event that will take place next month to kick off the book fair.
-Received flyers for book fair and began to count them for
class distribution.
Personal Reflections:
This was a
very busy week for Mrs. Travis and me.
One of Mrs. Travis’s responsibilities is to take pictures and create
I.D. badges for each student in the school.
We decided that I would run the classes in the library while her and the
volunteers that came in would call students up to take their picture and get
their badge made. I was excited about
the opportunity to run the classes and use some of the classroom management
strategies that I have either heard about or used at my past job. The first class to come in on Wednesday did
beautifully. This was a first-grade
class and they could check out their books quickly. I decided that I would read them, “The Legend
of Rock, Paper, Scissors” by Drew Daywalt.
The kids thoroughly enjoyed this book and I really got into character and
made it fun.
There were a couple of children that
kept disregarding the rules and I ended up having to ask them to put their
heads down for the remainder of the class.
However, this was after three times of redirecting the behavior. During the first instance, I made sure to
address the child by their name and asked them what the directions were. He told me and I asked him if he was
following the direction. He told me no
and I told him to show me that he can follow my directions. The second time, I pulled him to the side,
addressed him by his name and asked him if he was following the directions, he
said no, I then expressed disappointment and told him that by him following the
directions he is showing me respect. The
third time I addressed him quietly and told him to put his head down on his
desk for the remainder of his time in the library. I had addressed the class before beginning
the lesson by stating that if I ask them to do something three times they will
be asked to put their head down and receive a conduct mark and I will let their
teacher know.
The collaborative meeting with Mrs.
Friedrich went very well. I had been
bouncing around the idea of having students do a model UN, but after talking
with Mrs. Friedrich we both decided that the activity may be better suited for
students a little older than her 3rd grade class. However, we did decide that the gallery walk
was the avenue we wanted to take and I made the suggestion that the visiting
class should have a passport and for them to get a stamp they had to ask one
question about the country poster they were looking at or write down one
question on an index card as an exit ticket.
She loved this idea and is in the works of asking another class to come
in and be the participants of the gallery walk.
I stressed to her that we want to make her students experts on their
country, almost like an ambassador.
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