Expo Elementary - Ulla Tervo Desnick, 2ne grade teacher - 7 hours
Happy March!
Today we continued with book recommendations that they had been working on over the last few days. First we started of with forming sentences that start with “I recommend this book to”. As I walked around the class and helped people with their questions most children were having trouble thinking out what to write down not how to form the sentence. So I was helping them come up with ideas on why they liked the book, or what stood out to them. Next they went into their reading groups and I helped a few of the student with sounding out bigger words they are working on paragraphs. They then went to working on their paragraphs which was a bit hard for them to get the concept, after Ms. Ulla let me know that paragraph forming in at the 4th grade level but they were just trying to introduce it to them. Some children had to re-write theirs due to that they didn’t leave big enough spaces in-between their words. While Ms. Ulla read to the I filled up the big blue balls that they sit on out in the hallway, some were a little deflated.
After recess, which we go out with the kids for, Ms. Ulla, Ms. Olivia, and I sat down for lunch and discussed my lesson plan that I will be teaching in 2 weeks. She gave me some tips on how I could improve and finish within the hour time frame I have.
Towards the end of the day the start working on math, today was perimeter. They are starting off on the carpet square that is in the front of the room by putting rulers on the outside of the carpet. The other TA from St. Thomas is teaching the math lesson today and things got a bit out of hand I don’t think she thought about all the kids having a yard stick on this small space and what might happen. It was deferentially a good learning experience for me to expect the unexpected. In the end she got them to calm down and the project ended up working out.
