Week 12: Eleventh Day in the Classroom

Week 12: Eleventh Day in the Classroom

Date: Thursday, November 18^th, 2021

By: Monica Schrank  

This week I got to teach my fourth lesson to the students. They finished reading The First Thanksgiving book, while also summarizing and gathering the important details from the section that I read to them in class. The summarization part was what I was worried about, but since this was the students’ fourth time summarizing the text using the summarization key word starters (somebody, wanted, but, so then) the students knew exactly what key details to take from the section we read for the summarization of that section in the book. The students also did a Nearpod activity which they really enjoyed. This was my first time using Nearpod, and I thought it went really well! The students were using their book to be “text detectives” to find the answers to the questions either for a quiz, typing or speaking their response or even drawing a picture to answer the question. The students were able to learn about the importance of The First Thanksgiving while also practicing their summarization skills.

 During math, the students were learning how to add using a number line by figuring out how to get a given number to the next whole ten number then learning how many they ‘jump’ or add on to get the end result. About half the class needed more help with this math concept. That said, my MT and I split the students up that needed more help and we worked with them in groups on the math concept. I noticed that by having the students use a hundreds chart as a tool to refer back to as they are figuring out how many tens to add to get, it was very helpful for them to visually understand how many ones and tens to add by drawing the lines across for ones and down for tens. MT teacher and I spent a good amount of time helping the students while the rest of the class worked individually on the math problems. The students that my MT and I worked with were able to understand the concept more after we went step by step to figure out the problem.

During guided reading this week, I met individually with four students as they read three passages for me for their reading fluency. I was able to meet with the students that are higher academically, and they did very well with their reading fluency. However, one of the students kept reading fast just to get more words in but kept missing words along the way. Another student would read one line and not move down and pick back up at the line ahead of where he should be reading. I mentioned to this student that they should use their finger to help them read so they follow along and do not accidently move up a line. All of the students that I met with improved with how many words that they used to read in a minute which my MT was going to provide for each student during parent teacher conference next week. Overall, this was a busy day filled with so much learning, reviewing, and helping the students to improve in their understanding of what they are learning.