Week 5

Well I didn't reflect on last Friday's space lesson, so I'll do that now. It went not too good but not too bad. It was Friday afternoon and the kids were tired and anxious. It was also the first time we watch a video on the whiteboard. There are many factors why it was not the best lesson ever, but I will take this chance to learn from it.

So this week, I did calendar every morning. More so on Monday and Tuesday, I was dependent on my notes. As the week went on I became more independent, on Thursday I forgot to sing the Days of the Week song. The strange thing about that was that no student said so because they're pretty good at that. I think I am doing well with calendar each day I do it the more I feel comfortable. I also think I am becoming less robotic and a little more loose and expressive.

So this week I am adding math to my teaching. I am really excited and a little nervous. I found it a little harder in making these math lessons than others. The concepts seem so simple and aren't very deep. It was sort of difficult to think of what to do especially because there is not a lot of explanation needed ( ie counting). I am also doing storytime and meeting at the end of the day. This I am not worried about at all.

I am also beginning my action research this week. I am a little nervous about this. I have worked on the stories I am going to use and the guided questions. I feel like those are satisfactory. The implementing of it isn't really making me nervous, I feel confident in the ways I am approaching it. I guess the overall thing that makes me nervous is that my AR is dealing with ELL students but we only have 3 and they are higher level. I mean this will have no effect on the actual implementation just on the results. There is nothing I can do about it, I mean there is no way to predict what kind of diversity will be in the classroom. I am sure it will all work out even if I do not have amazing outcomes.