All week we have been reading a story about a girl who is deaf. We have had vocabulary words like deaf, signing, language, cultures, and celebrate. They can parrot the meanings back to me and use them in a sentence, however they cannot seem to circle the definition on a piece of paper. We have been concentrating on the main idea and details of the story. Not only did we practice this strategy on another piece of writing, but we have done it (together) twice. However, today on our selection test about 40% of the class still did not know what the main idea of the story was-even though I flat out told them as a reminder before the test!!! ARGH. It is so frustrating to try to be a reflective practitioner when you know that you have given them all the tools to be successful and they decided to go out to lunch instead. Maybe tomorrow I will have to try beating it into them. :)
My teacher had to leave early today for an appointment. We had our fifth grade reading buddies, so there was still another teacher in the room. But I did them ready, sang their goodbye song, and sent them out the door all by myself. Now I have as much time as I need, alone, in an empty classroom with technology at my disposal. I can't wait to have my own classroom!
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Keep up your blog so that we get to taste the reality of teaching.
I have lived an adventurous life, most of its depth and richness was due to the love of learning, reading and knowledge acquired from good teachers.
Please enjoy my short stories (from a self taught writer, encouraged personally by another writer/teacher Max Braithwaite.) see my blogs for links, budoracle, aloofus, streetbarker
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