Monday 2nd December 2013
I did heard some children read while the teacher was taking the register and sorting out what the children have for lunch.
The children have been looking at instructions and how to write these, for example 'what we need' and 'what we do' concepts of giving and following instructions. So they have been looking at how to catch a witch, and they had to come up with instructions for this, 1 child came up with putting a potion in front of her to tempt her into the trap which was a cage. Another child came up with tying her up with a rope and then the teacher went through 'what we need' and 'what we do' concepts with the children on the interactive whiteboard.
I helped some children with instructions on what planet they would like to visit and how to get there, they also had to write about what they would like to do when they get there! It was interesting that most children chose Earth instead of another planet. Anyway they had to use instructions and time connectives such as 'First', 'Next,' 'Finally' 'Then' etc and they are just starting to grasp this idea now.
In numeracy we did about subtracting using the number grid so the children can draw lines to the numbers to see how many 'to jump back' which gives them the answer.
In phonics I was helping a child with different sounds of letters. I have learned that a digraph has 2 letters like 'ow' in 'how' and a trigraph has 3 letters in it like 'igh' in 'high.' Phoneme is the sound that the letters make and grapheme is the symbol of that letter/combination of letters.
We were doing the sounds 'ay' 'ow' 'ai' 'ie' 'ea' 'igh' 'ey' 'oi' 'oy' 'ir' and confusing for the children 'I' which is a word in it's self. Some of the words that were brought up were 'might' 'destroy' 'cow' 'coin' 'money' etc.
I helped some children make some rockets throughout the day, it was a little side project to some of the other work they had been doing. I helped to make three rockets and my creative abilities seemed to get worse with each rocket, but however the children's enthusiasm for their individual rockets increased with each poorly crafted rocket - very funny! 1 child could make a rocket completely independently which was very impressive!
Finally I oversaw some children making some reindeer gift bags for the Christmas fayre on Friday. They turned out really good and we must have got to nearly 40 or so! The children were great at organising who was going to do drawing some ears when we had run out, while another child cut them out etc. so there was so,me good planning and production going on.
It would be Mrs Dungworth's final day on Tuesday, so this was the last day I would be seeing her, which is sad as she is a brilliant teacher, however the class will be having two nice teachers taking over from then on, sharing the week with half doing a few days and another doing a couple of days, so it will be interesting to see how they will teach and how it will vary from Mrs D. What will also be interesting is how they communicate with eachother about activities as they share their teaching time in the classroom.
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