Day 3 at Hope

Today went very well.  I'm getting more used to using the Mimeo board and making fun Mimeo slides.  My cooperating teacher loves them and the kids seem to also.  The sounds we covered were /v/ and /y/.  I showed two videos, read them two stories, and played a game covering these sounds.  During the story there are sections where the students say the /v/ or /y/ sound five or eight times.  I noticed that the students sometimes say the sound more than five or eight times, so I told them to repeat after me.  I said the sound the correct number or times and I held up one finger for each time I said the sound.  Then I had my students do the same thing. This helped them stay on track and not repeat the sound an extra two or three times.  

Day 4 at Hope

Today my students were very chatty and all over the place.  Some of them were in their desks, some had their heads down, and a couple were crying.  I had to use a lot of classroom management strategies which worked, but it took awhile.  I've noticed that when the students are like this much of my cooperating teacher's lessons are filled with classroom management interruptions.  There is no way around this because Hope believes in 100%, which means that the lesson does not continue until 100% of the class is giving the teacher their full attention.  Sometimes this means that a student needs to stand in the back of the room or stand in the hall during extreme cases.  I did end up getting through the lesson with was on the -le ending.  I had some fun Mimeo slides for them and then I gave them a worksheet.