I observed Miss. Hooker’s first grade classroom in Towner ND. Miss hooker starts the students off with morning work as soon as they get into the room. This morning work is a worksheet that covers all subject areas, it relates to what the students are going to be working on throughout the day. Miss. Hooker said it has been a great tool to get the students’ minds thinking. Another thing I thought was interesting about Miss. Hooker’s class was the way she keeps the students active. She has a website that is a mini Zumba for her students. Whenever they are starting to get a little rowdy, she plays a three minute Zumba video that the students dance too, and then returns to lecture. The students react in a very positive way, after some of their energy is used up they are much more capable of sitting still and listening to the lesson.
She is a big believer in movement and keeping the kids entertained. During spelling lessons, she would see that her students were board of just writing the words repeatedly and often would start day dreaming. She introduced the students to body spelling, they go through all of their words and figure out where they go on the writing road. If it the letter goes above the middle line, the student will “reach for the sky”. If …show more content…
Hooker uses Zones of Regulation in her classroom. She stresses to the students that trust is a big thing. If the students cannot be trusted to behave like first graders, then she cannot trust them in other areas such as recess. With her Zones of Regulation, Miss. Hooker uses a fix it station. After several warnings students are asked to go to the fix it station, and once she is done instructing her other students, she will go to the fix it station and have a conversation about the student’s behavior and how they can fix it as a team. A big thing I realized while observing was that Miss. Hooker is a big team player, she never makes a problem just the student’s problem, but a problem they share and can fix
She is a big believer in movement and keeping the kids entertained. During spelling lessons, she would see that her students were board of just writing the words repeatedly and often would start day dreaming. She introduced the students to body spelling, they go through all of their words and figure out where they go on the writing road. If it the letter goes above the middle line, the student will “reach for the sky”. If …show more content…
Hooker uses Zones of Regulation in her classroom. She stresses to the students that trust is a big thing. If the students cannot be trusted to behave like first graders, then she cannot trust them in other areas such as recess. With her Zones of Regulation, Miss. Hooker uses a fix it station. After several warnings students are asked to go to the fix it station, and once she is done instructing her other students, she will go to the fix it station and have a conversation about the student’s behavior and how they can fix it as a team. A big thing I realized while observing was that Miss. Hooker is a big team player, she never makes a problem just the student’s problem, but a problem they share and can fix