It has been a long time since I have made a post. Over the last wee while I have had the Year 3 students come back into my class and over the last two weeks I have had 3 new students join. I have found some challenges in going from 7 students up to 15 (even though this isn't a huge number the learning differences are rather large). I can now say that my programme is running much smoother after having made several adjustments.
Reading was quite easy as my Year 3s knew my expectations and how Daily 5 works in Room 6 so that was easy. The 3 new students were buddied up to Room 6 classmates so they have picked this up fast. I currently have 6 reading groups and ensure I read with 4 groups each day.
Writing has been a bit harder to manage as there have been so many needs in my class. I had an observation by my principal and together we decided to just bring it back to the basics and just focus on one thing at a time. So that I am not overwhelmed and students are not overwhelmed. Each lesson I have a whole class focus (this changes each day) and then I work with one group only per day.
Maths has been going good. I run my maths similar to Daily 5 where children are in their rotation and I just pull them out depending on their needs. I have had to adjust activities to meet students with higher or lower needs.
