A New Term - January 2014

Wednesday 8th January 2014
There was no placement on Monday due to a training day.
In 1J we were looking at different materials and the children were asked what these materials felt like e.g. cotton wool is soft, tin is shiny etc. This was part of a science topic that the children have been enjoying!

I heard a lot of the children read as many had not read from before the Christmas break. In the afternoon I helped some f the children change for P.E and helped a group of children get out the book bags and reading books for home time.


Monday 13th January
In 1G I heard quite a few readers and helped some children in ICT that they now have on a Monday, mostly just helping them log off the computer not with the actual work as they need to demonstrate understanding of this themselves. We also had a lady come from Sheffield council about the Eco Transport Initiative. This is about not only being green about transport but also about keeping the school gates clear and thereby making it safer for the children outside the school gates. I helped the children make an eco tree which they drew around their hands and then we cut out these and they were stuck on a tree to make leaves. Green hands represented an ecological method of getting to school e.g. walking or public transport and brown hand leaves represented coming by car, the green is for healthy leaves and brown is for leaves that were dying. The children also got to design posters of what they noticed on their journey to school. The lady gave a prize to the children with the best posters and every child got a pencil for taking part. I mostly helped the children with cutting out their hand leaf.

Wednesday 15th January
In maths I worked with two children playing Snakes and Ladders, helping them to recognise the higher numbers and help with taking turns as well as the game rules (lower ability set). During Literacy I helped children from green group with sentence practice, so did they remember to use a capital letter, finger spaces between words and a full stop at the end of the sentence? In assembly time I heard a child read as part of reading buddies, he has SEN mad usually struggles to concentrate, however he did brilliantly with reading. In the afternoon I helped some children get ready for P.E.  and took a child for first aid, I kept an ice pack on the child's foot (under instruction to do so) as they had had an accidental bump from another child. The other child had been rocking on their chair and it had come down on the boy's foot. He was fine and a note was sent home with him.