Week 27: April 17th-20th

    

    Monday, April 17th

➽Activity of the day: Popcorn read

    Today was a partner read between the girl I've been struggling with for the past couple weeks and the one not mentioned in the Friday post. This pairing worked well. My girl making leaps and bounds was patient and wants the other one to succeed as much as I do. She was a fantastic role model and kept her friend engaged. The last pages of the book have questions for the student about what they read, connections they made, and inferences. Both nailed it! I'm proud of them.



    Tuesday, April 18th
➽Activity of the day: Popcorn read
    The activity was the same as yesterday, but the student helping her friend was replaced with my other regular. Unlike yesterday's pair, these two do not work well. They were trying to one up the other in who read what, or would work together to make my job more difficult. I've been struggling with this duo all year. My scolding them or talking to Mrs. Carlson about them has done nothing to fix their behavior. I sat between them and encouraged them to do well- eventually warning them there would be consequences. Nothing worked. 
    I'm not sure what I can do differently since I've already gotten the teacher involved. I will continue to tell them about how their goofing off affects me and wait it out until the end of the year. 

    Wednesday, April 19th
➽Activity of the day: Individual read
    My student I was working with today was quite difficult. I wrote in the Monday post last week that she struggles with distractions. It takes a lot to get her to focus on the task at hand. Last week I was able to keep it at bay but today she was trying to test my patience. My asking her nicely to bring it in was to no avail. Eventually I had no choice but to tell her I was disappointed in her and that she was making my job difficult. I hope I got through.


    Thursday, April 20th
➽Activity of the day: New student
    I read with a girl who's new to the school- according to her, she's new to the country! We got along great. She picked out a fiction book on spiders and read along. I taught her what an arachnid was and how spiders spin silk to make webs. After, I asked her what her two big takeaways from the book were. She had a lot to say!









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  1. Ms. DunleyMay 11, 2023 at 10:16 AM

    I am happy to see that you address the struggles as well as the successes in your blog!

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