Observation Time!

Wednesday 20th November 2013

Firstly as usual I helped the children with recognising real versus non-real words and I set up and ICT game on the laptop which was also along the same lines - a phonics game of real words go into the green dragon and non-real words go into the red dragon. Whilst a child completes this game on the laptop I hear another child read when they have finished the children swap over and complete the other task.

In phonics I helped a child with the 'ar' sound and writing words with this sound in e.g. car, star, harsh, part etc.

I also completed a money game with the children where they gave out pretend money to each other and had the other person count how much money they had. I made it harder by adding more money and more complex coins, such as 20p's for example.

In the afternoon I met with Angela for my observation, it was lovely to see her and I think the observation went okay, also I received some good feedback on how to improve my interaction with the children which will help me to further develop better strategies for assisting learning in the classroom.

I helped some children get changed for P.E. and then I set up the ICT game of red versus green dragon - for real versus non real words (phase 3) and pick a picture - matching words to a picture (phase 2) games for children that were age/stage appropriate to their needs. Whilst one child was on the laptop I heard another child read and then swapped them over after they had completed the first task.

The children have also been looking at connective (first, then, next, finally etc) words and how to use these in a sentence. They have also been looking at information such as instructions and what these are and what they tell us, e.g. 'what we need' and 'what to do' when following instructions for a recipe.