Sixth class

So today we started the classes in out third and last period in practicum one, so we were really motivated for teaching one more time to the children. This time there was a small change on the schedule so my team was not the first to pass, instead it was the turn of; Monica, Gisselt and Cristela. Now this is the way that the class was developed.

This  was the lay out of the classroom before the children arrived.

The first one to steep up was Monica, she was in charge of the song, all the students followed her instructions precisely, she also did a great modeling job in all her activities, she also used her activity of the roulette and was great because the purpose of the roulette was achieved, at least in my opinion, and the students were able to understand most of it. She presented some numbers and with the aid of some vounteers and choral repetition she made the class start to internalize the information. Something that I admire form Monica is her patience and her unique ability to make discipline present in the class, this was an important factor in this class.

The second was Gisselt she asked students about the days of the week, this was the vocabulary that was presented also the calendar was used by her. In this time of the class she made the students remember and practice the day of the week and review the colors and numbers, this was something great, because she always was practicing and reviewing so this was a great for the students because they will remember this new vocabulary and they will also remember the things that they had learned before. She also used her activity of boxes as she did in the workshop.

 

 





Third was the turn of Cristela, she used all the new vocabulary, she reviewed the days of the week in an interesting way, because she mixed thing s a little, in other words there was a variation on the activities. What I found really interesting is that she was changing the order of the days of the week and asking the students to put them in the right order but they also had to say the name of the day. She also used her activity of using clay in the class, it was about painting with the clays some words in sheets of paper.

 

I liked the ways this class was develop I will probably have some variations when doing it myself but I would use this planning and class as my guide, with the only small change of using the clay to paint or model something, the reason for this is simple , I am not good at using the clays so I do not want to ask my students to do something I am not good at.

For my case of study, this class was a great opportunity to observe the progress that Alan is going through right now, from the moment that the class started he was answering correctly the questions that involved past topics. However not everything is always positive, at the end of the last activities Alan had started to misbehave, he was moving around when the activities were still going on and was trying to play with other students, this tells me that he has good cognitive skills but that he losses focus pretty quickly.