Thinking of an Idea and Writing an Interesting Sentence About It!

Wednesday 27th November 2013

I helped a child in the morning identifying real vs non real words, e.g. reading the word off the board and sounding it out phonetically to them so that they could decide if the word was real or not.

A teacher from another class wanted a child taking to the first aid office because she had a nose bleed so I took her there, and we got her nose seen to and a note for her parents. She was okay and the nose bleed did stop quite quickly.

I took a group of different children throughout the day and working with the child one-to-one seeing if they could come up with an interesting sentence, say it, write it and check it! So for example the child could look at a book to help them or come up with an idea off the top of their head, first they would say it to me - one child said, 'The snowman was white and cold,' so once she had said this I got her to write it on her whiteboard, using cursive letters for good writing practice. Next we checked it, looking for a capital letter at the beginning of the sentence, finger spacing between words and a full stop at the end of the sentence. The aim of the activity is to see if these children could hit the target of a 1C most are already working at this level but just need a little boost. There were some brilliant sentences written!

The children in both classes in year 1 use that of standard letters and sounds in phonics, but also use the jolly phonics actions in conjunction with the sounds.

I asked Mrs J if she thinks there is anything I could do better to assist her, particularly I was thinking about the morning when I feel a little lost when the parents are helping with the first activity before the register. Anyway she thinks I could concentrate on behaviour management of the children, especially when working in small groups. It would also be good to look at any dwindling resources e.g. could the pencils be sharpened or the superstar tickets topped up for example, and finally it is okay to get some children and work on anything I think they need to improve, e.g. it will not be stepping on the teacher's toes! So I can have that little bit more responsibility now which is good news, at least now I know what I can do that will be more effective in supporting the teacher and the children in 1J. I like to now for personal development and to set targets and see if I have reached them.

I am hoping to help 1J out next Friday with some items they need to do for the Christmas fayre, however the day clashes with college so it just depends on what is happening there too.