Week 12

So this week I unfortunately missed my field experience. We don't have much time left and I really love spending time there. I have grown close to my Kidwatching student and I am learning a lot from her. I am currently working on a poem about my grandmother for my publication. She passed away July of 2008. I am not really into poem writing, but I was really close to her so I am enjoying writing about her. I am really excited to see the final product! When I went home for Thanksgiving I rounded up a picture of me and my grandparents to put on my final project. I can't wait to share my poem with my family! I hope that it turns out pretty good!!! In class it was really fun to work on digital stories in our groups. I had made a digital story in one of my other classes and we didn't get to pick the topic so I didn't really enjoy making it. Although since we got to pick our topic in class I really did enjoy working on this one. I also thought the videos we watched in class were very interesting!! I can't wait to show off our finished project!!

Week 11

So last week in field experience I received my student's writing sample. I also got to help my student start to type up a play that her and the student's in the group had wrote. I had to help remind her to capitalize letters and were to use punctuation. She was constantly forgetting to put punctuation at the end of her sentences. Then after they went back to the classroom from skills I watched the teacher do I lesson. The teacher did a lesson on the overhead over correcting sentences. I noticed that a lot of the students weren't paying close attention and were doing other things. The teacher often ignored these students. I feel like that when I start teaching I won't be able to ignore these students causing disruptions. After the lesson they then went into writing workshop. When all the students started writing it was time for us to leave. That was my day in my field experience. In class we went over and shared our students writing. My student wrote a paragraph on what she was thankful for. We went through and answered questions figuring out what our student needed to work on. I think the hardest part of this was writing what I would say to the parents about their student. That is one thing I am really nervous about is talking to the parents and tell them where their child is struggling. I hope I never have a problem parent!!

Week 10

So this week in field experience I finally got my kidwatching student. My teacher actually just let us pick any student that we wanted to kidwatch. I choose a girl that I had previously worked with that I have grown a little relationship with. I picked her because I feel like it will be easier for me to interview and watch her since I know she is pretty comfortable with me and talks to me a lot. I really hope to learn a lot from this kidwatching experience!

This week in class we actually presented of our projects! I saw some really interesting genres. I noticed that a lot of students but a lot of work into their projects. I spent a lot of time making my poster and making it visual so I am glad that my other classmates did as well. Going through and looking at their presentations I actually learned a few things about some topics that I never knew about! As everyone knows I did Kendra for my project and her new season comes on tonight! Can't wait!!!