Weekly Journal #1
Monday- 7:45-12:00 Today was exhausting. The kids were hyper after the weekend and the morning procedures took a little longer than usual because we were reminding the students what they need to be doing. I also witnessed in the hall how sweet kids can turn and say something offensive. Our class was lined up in the hall ready to walk into the classroom. Some children were still getting into line from being in the cafeteria. One boy had his head shaved over the weekend. One girl took notice and began laughing, pointing, and calling him weird looking. I was appalled.
This girl normally goes out of her way to compliment other children in line. The boy in question hung his head and didn’t say anything. My mentor did not hear the little girl, but she did go over and compliment his hair cut and …show more content…
We have one boy in our class that came in only knowing the first letter in his name. Therefore, we have been working on recognizing other letters with him. I was at one literacy center conducting an alphabet bingo game. The boy that struggles was working hard at finding the letters and he was succeeding. When I pulled the letter Y to find he tried to give up.
The girl beside him asked me if she could show him where it is on his bingo card. I told her that we are going to let him find it. I kept encouraging him and he began looking again. Then he found it and we cheered for him. His face lit up in the biggest smile I have seen from him. The rest of my time at Andrew Johnson he continued pointing out the letter Y whenever he would see it. I also thought it was sweet that he told me that he loved me before he went to lunch. Today let me see how much encouragement can go with children. We can’t expect children to inherently know what a letter looks like or that they enjoy looking for letters that have no meaning to them. Children need encouragement. It helps their self-esteem grow and it will foster a love for
Monday- 7:45-12:00 Today was exhausting. The kids were hyper after the weekend and the morning procedures took a little longer than usual because we were reminding the students what they need to be doing. I also witnessed in the hall how sweet kids can turn and say something offensive. Our class was lined up in the hall ready to walk into the classroom. Some children were still getting into line from being in the cafeteria. One boy had his head shaved over the weekend. One girl took notice and began laughing, pointing, and calling him weird looking. I was appalled.
This girl normally goes out of her way to compliment other children in line. The boy in question hung his head and didn’t say anything. My mentor did not hear the little girl, but she did go over and compliment his hair cut and …show more content…
We have one boy in our class that came in only knowing the first letter in his name. Therefore, we have been working on recognizing other letters with him. I was at one literacy center conducting an alphabet bingo game. The boy that struggles was working hard at finding the letters and he was succeeding. When I pulled the letter Y to find he tried to give up.
The girl beside him asked me if she could show him where it is on his bingo card. I told her that we are going to let him find it. I kept encouraging him and he began looking again. Then he found it and we cheered for him. His face lit up in the biggest smile I have seen from him. The rest of my time at Andrew Johnson he continued pointing out the letter Y whenever he would see it. I also thought it was sweet that he told me that he loved me before he went to lunch. Today let me see how much encouragement can go with children. We can’t expect children to inherently know what a letter looks like or that they enjoy looking for letters that have no meaning to them. Children need encouragement. It helps their self-esteem grow and it will foster a love for