This was a week filled with activities and schedules out of the norm. We had a substitute on Monday and the students definitely took advantage of the lack of my co-teacher to goof around a little more. As my co-teacher said, give them an inch and they take a mile.
My focus this week was reviewing sight word booklets for the second time and recording the improvements of the students. So far, all of the students have increase their number of sight words recognized! As we have been learning more reading strategies, I see and hear the students using the strategies to figure out the sight words we are working towards mastering. The use of the strategies is not the only tool they have; it is wonderful seeing all of the different SMART board lessons that incorporate student interaction in learning these words.
Today the school closed at 11 am for the snow storm, but my class had their pajama party anyways!
My question to all of you is this: what are some ways that your CT is teaching and reinforcing sight words to reach the most amount of students possible?
First of all to address your question, on my post "First Two Weeks and High Frequency Words" in the comment section I cover a way my co-teacher (CT) does it very briefly and the actual post is about assessing the children if you want to check that out. It probably is the same thing you did with your children. Ha ha! I would like to hear if it is not, how does your CT do it?
ReplyDeleteSecondly, my CT has been gone for a couple of times already throughout this field experience due to the fact she has meetings all the time. The children knew me, my partner, and the paraprofessional in the room, and even one time knew the substitute since is a regular co-teacher in the room but they took every advantage they could. This made me open my eyes to how well my CT manages the room, and I hope to continue to learn from her how to do this.
Lastly, the snow day drove my second graders absolutely wild! We had to even push off an assessment since they were just not ready to focus. Ha ha! That being said, I could not imagine how excited your kids were for a substitute, pajama day, and a snow day all within one week. Nevertheless, what is the best incorporation of the Smart Board have you seen so far?
I hope your field experience continues to go well, Valerie!