Journal #8: Elementary School Visit

This week on my visit to the elementary school was alike all the others, with only a few exceptions. Like always, I entered the school, picked up lesson plans, and went to my classroom where the kids were, as every week, working on their stories they write every day. This routine reminds me of the discussion on lower, working class in the Anyon reading. My group is in fact from a distinctly lower class and I have noticed that every week I go to the room, they are doing the same thing every time. A very routine working schedule, just as the reading moderates.

While observing, I also taught the children games about fluency and matching. We played one of their favorite games, Go Fish. It is set up to be go fish, only with matching cards involved. The kids put together words such as, Hat:Cat and Fan:Pan. It makes them think about the rhyme, and also equally work on sight words. The next game we played was Candy Land. This game was fun, yet worked well because in order to move the pieces the kids had to say the sight words written on the back of the card.

I still have to attend the school two more times no oder to obtain my 15 hours, but I am not upset about it because I very much enjoy my children that I teach and I will miss them when I leave. They have all have made an impact on me in school and how I will teach throughout my career.