LI Day 3

I like being able to walk into the classroom and say hello to the students by name. Many of them will come up to me to say good morning, they are very well mannered. They are getting used to having me there in the mornings. I come in and usually do a few organizational things for Mrs.Hausmann. Alphabetizing worksheets or fileing work while the 1st graders work on a morning assignment.

The big thing for today was that I did a read aloud for the class. Mrs.Hausmann had asked me to try and find a book that had elephants or mice in it and had examples of the long a sound. I got Ella (the elephant) Takes the Cake from the library. We forgot to do the read aloud during reading time, but right before I left I got to read to the kids. It went very well, I did it how Mike Borka taught us too and Mrs.Hausmann seemed pleased.

I am not sure if that is as much as I'll get to teach in this classroom or not. I think it would be hard for me to teach a lesson for the 1st grade classroom because everything is so situational, yet it is the same everyday. Many of the lessons have to do with singing songs that they all already know. And Mrs.Hausmann doesn't exactly teach lessons the way that I would be able to, because they are 1st graders. The main lesson part of the day is called "centers." The students are all put into groups. One group works with Mrs.Hausmann and three groups work on projects of their own. I got to lead a group on finding words with the long a sound. This was cool because I got to work with students who are all on different levels of their learning. I got a mini experience in teaching diverse learners.