Four days in a row of germy 7 and unders gave me what some may call an "unavoidable" cold. Boo. :( So yesterday was a rough day; I'm convinced that losing your voice or having a sore throat is the absolutely worst thing that could happen to a teacher. It just adds all kinds of new problems to your day.
In the morning I got to help kids one on one with math that they had a hard time with, and then finish reading the phonics book with the kids I hadn't read with on Tuesday. It's amazing how much you can pick up about what aspects of reading a student struggles with just by sitting and listening to them read for about 10 minutes. Kimberly sounds out consonants really well, but struggles with identifying the sounds that go with the vowels. Andrea can sound out words and put the sounds together into a real word, but she struggles with recognizing the same word multiple times. Lizzeth can sound out each letter, but when she tries to put them together, she works backwards. Angel also struggles with re-recognizing words he has just identified. We were late to the library today so it was all a little rushed; and we were missing two library books so I went on a hunt through alllllll the book bins in room 3. No luck.
For centers, we made bunny helicopters! Really fun, but also really hard to keep them quiet in the classroom setting. It was really cute though, and the kids took the job of cutting it out very seriously once they understood that if they cut it sloppy, it would be less likely to fly. After it was cut out, one ear was folded forward and the other was folded backward, like the propellors of a helicopter. The bottom was folded and a paper clip was placed on the bottom to make it more weighted. After that we got to take them outside to fly them; it was a perfect day for it too because there was a gentle breeze that could pick up the bunny-copter and keep it up in the air for longer. Nicholas let his go and the wind kept it up in the air for about 10 seconds!
After recess, I had the challenge of teaching it to all 10 of the ELD students at once. With the use of visuals (I modified the activity so that I was actually doing it with them, instead of just having an already completed example for them to look at), they all followed along pretty well! They all finished in time and got the chance to go out and fly them before computer lab. Ashley has been really focused in all the centers she's done with me lately, and let me tell you, that has been such a nice change. She's finally getting to level that most of the kids came in at; that is a huge relief.
For the students I'd worked with during normal center time, after we finished our bunny-copters, we talked about capacity. We had a bunch of different cups and bowls and small blocks to fill them with. We talked about how we were measuring how many blocks each container could carry and how more blocks meant that cup had a bigger capacity than one that held less blocks. We used vocabulary like "biggest" and "greatest" and "smallest" and "least." All words I've been listening to first graders use this week, but at a more advanced stage. I'm so excited for my kindergartners to move on to first grade and continue to grow. :)
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