My end of term goals were:
- Focus on the positives and give children more praise.
- Continue consistent behaviour management
- Have a greater wait time when children are answering a question.
- Take notes during guided sessions.
- Ensure I know next steps before teaching lessons.
- Provide children with more feed forward.
This week has been really good with trying to get children back into
learning mode and remembering how things are done in Room 4. I haven't had any
new additions to the class so that has been good. Most of my spare time this
week has been planning when to do everything as being a nine week term with all
testing due in week 5 it is going to go extremely fast.
For reading we are continuing with the Daily 5, however instead of
the children having free choice I am choosing for them due to issues children
not choosing properly last term. I will slowly start letting children choose
again once they have proven that they know how the Daily 5 programme runs. This
week we spent the week looking a visualising as it is a area that I hadn't
covered yet. Next week we will be moving onto inferring for the next 5 weeks. I
was observed on Wednesday by Catriona and my next step is work on developing
LI’s specific to each student so I will be doing this during the week with the
students so that they can take ownership of their own learning.
I have started up my writing group rotations and altered my
programme after reading The Writing Book by Sheena Cameron and Louise Dempsey
in the holidays. I am really looking forward to trying out the ideas and lesson
outlined in their book over the course of the term (and will reflect on them
each week).
In Maths this week our focus has been on multiplication and
division. I spent Monday setting up my new calendar math which the majority of
my class were able to independently do by the end of the week. There are just one or two areas that I need
to do a little more teaching around.
We also had the children that had been down in the junior room for
maths rejoin us. They are working with Catriona in their group. It is amazing
how the dynamics of a class change when
something new is added. I am rather annoyed by the class who I did have last
term and how they seem to have forgot how to behave during Maths time – and it
is even more important that they behave now with two teachers in the class as
we are both talking and engaging with our groups that it does increase the
noise level slightly. But this is something I plan to be on top of by the end
of week 2.
Our inquiry this term is based on the effect that humans are having
on marine life. I hooked the children in by showing them a YouTube video of
some marine life that is being harmed which then stimulated some good
conversations which we then based our questions around. I, along with the children
am quite excited to see what they find out and what we can do to help. I will
keep you updated on how we go.
Goals for week 2:
- Develop LI’s and next learning steps with children.
- Focus on the positives and give children more praise.
- Continue consistent behaviour management
- Have a greater wait time when children are answering a question.
- Take notes during guided sessions.
