Internship Week 3

This week was really fun once again! I absolutely love the school we are in. Everyone always seems to be really relaxed and happy. In our first grade classroom the kids really seem to be learning a lot when it comes to reading and writing. Everyday the students write a journal. They work on their journal for an hour by themselves and then they get up and read their journals aloud to the class. I think that I can tell some improvement in the students myself just since I have been there for a few weeks.

We have not actually gotten the chance to teach anything to the students ourselves, but we do get to work with them on their reading. Everday we take a list of students and read with them one by one. This is a good way to give us the idea of the different reading levels in the classroom. Also, the students who have trouble with their writing sometimes work with us on their journals. We will sit down with them, they will dictate to use what they want to say, we write it down on paper and then they copy it. It is interesting the different invented spellings that they come up with.

I still think that it is interesting that we have not really seen the students do any math. I know that reading is really important at this age, but I think that all of the other subjects are just as important. I finished my math assessment this week, and my students had no clue what to do at all. None of them even knew what it meant to subtract. I hope that the other subjects are not being neglected because of the reading curriculum that takes up most of their day.

Advertisement

---