Second Week in Placement - I Know Nearly Everyone's Names!

Due to a bad cold I did not go into the school on Monday, however I have offered both teachers extra days starting tomorrow, so I will be in four days which I am really looking forward to. However here is what I got up to in Mrs J's Class on Wednesday 2nd October:-

Firstly I helped the children with their cursive writing following on from the week before as well as helping a child with phonics - sounding out the words and trying to get the children to come up with other words that sound similar.

The children have been learning about castles and who lives in them. In creative art, I helped some children with the swords and shields that they have been making. The children can work mostly independently and just need help with cutting, or with a template for a sword - which was certainly testing my creative skills! Some of the children came up with fantastic designs and it was good to see their creative juices flowing.

The children have made a card for a child that is not well in their class and so I helped to stick all their messages into the card. It was lovely to see the support that they show for their classmate.

I also helped some of the children work out if there there are any lines of symmetry in certain letters e.g. B, K, C,D F, E. The children are very good at finding the line(s) of symmetry.

In the afternoon I helped some children get ready for P.E. e.g. helping to take off shoes and socks and some children needed help taking off their school jumpers. whilst the children were doing P.E. I called individual children out to hear them read. The children differ in reading abilities varying from spelling out words to reading independently with little help to say or understand words. There was some great effort put into reading!

I now know all the names of the children in this class, I now just need to finish learning all the names in class 1D.