I firstly helped a child in the morning with her recognition of real versus nonsense words and also her writing practice. She did some brilliant work!
In phonics the children did the usual sounds but also the new sound of 'ew' such as 'flew' and 'grew' The children were also working on 'irl' such as in 'girl' 'twirl' etc. I worked with a boy 'G' in phonics helping him to stay focused on the task.
Today I got the chance to do my mini lesson plan - I was working with 8 children who played a 2D shapes game that I created. The learning objectives were that the children could spot the odd shape out in a pattern of shapes, that they could secondly chose a shape that had a certain number of sides and tell me some properties about it, and finally could they make a basic symmetrical pattern using some 2D shapes of their choice? It was turned into a game by throwing the dice to determine finding a shape with that many sides e.g. 6 = hexagon, 3 = triangle 1(curve) = a circle etc. The children had fun and the mini game is on TES connect. Something which I could have done better is to have less children the optimum is 6 (so Mrs D tells me) 8 is a lot for a small group activity. Also as I look at the instructions that I've put on tes-connect I think that the game is a little complicated as it has three parts to it. These are definitely points to work on!
In the afternoon I helped some children with making reindeer antlers which are going on some handmade craft bags designed by the children for the Christmas Fayre! The children found cutting the antlers out a little tricky however they were very creative! Mrs J from the other Y1 class came in and saw me cutting out some reindeer ears and told me off (only a little :-)) as the children need to do this themselves - I certainly see where she is coming from, but there weren't enough ears to antlers ratio, but it didn't matter, and so I must remember to allow the children to be independent at all times, and not be too quick to jump in to help!
I asked Mrs D if there is anything I can improve on whilst helping in the class, and I also asked her what I do well. So the thing that I can improve on is helping children in the morning, particularly where the parents don't stay with their child to do the first writing activity, so look out for the children who don't have their parents there to help. The thing that I do really well apparently is working 1-to-1 with children. The reason why I wanted feedback from Mrs D was because I had feedback from the other class teacher in 1J in the form of the observation feedback comments, so it's nice to know what I am doing right and wrong in both classes. Both teachers are very helpful with feedback and you can approach them about anything which is great.
Finally one of the new teachers that will be taking over 1D in the next coming weeks came in to visit which was lovely to meet up with her! There will be two teachers in 1D sharing the first and second half of the week.
Here are some pictures of the mini lesson - the shapes game.
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