Thursday, February 27, 2020

Week 6: 2/27/2020

This week I really saw a lot with the students spelling unlike what I had seen in previous weeks, and that is because they don't have school Friday. I'm really seeing the levels of these students with reading and writing by looking at their spelling tests. There are so many kids who are extremely below level in this second-grade class. Compared to my kindergarten field experience, I really feel that these students are lower. They are using random letters to sound out the words when most of these words are sight words that they should know by the end of second grade. Even after working on these words for a week, they still struggled with them.

Today, however, one student who had done okay on the last few spelling tests (usually between 70-87%) got 100% on their test today. That student was so proud of themself. Compared to the last few tests, that student has been really upset about not doing as well, so I think that this student worked very hard with their reading interventionalist. I was very proud of that student.

On Thursday, three of the students who have more behaviors were also out. Them not being there made the day go so much smoother because those two students cause a lot of behaviors with the other students. One student stems off of all of the others in the class. The other student is the student most kids stem off of. Having them gone made a huge difference, so I really think that those two students are the ones I'm going to have to make a connection with to work on figuring out those behaviors.

Overall, field experience was great this week. It provided so much insight!
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  1. Allison KraftFebruary 27, 2020 at 4:03 PM

    I agree that the school seems a little behind compared to our kindergarten classrooms. It's hard to gage the levels that the students are at because it seems as if all the students are on different tracks. That student must of been so proud and their self concept must have increased which is an amazing thing to see as a teacher.

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  2. NadineFebruary 27, 2020 at 4:46 PM

    Hi Zoe,

    Its great that you got to see students spell, I also got to see the students as they study for their spelling test and then actually take their spelling test because of them not having school friday. I agree being that some students can be the ones to cause the chaos within the classroom. However, its important to maintain classroom management and reinforcing rules and directions to keep them on task.

    Thanks for sharing, Nadine

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