Reflection of Teacher Observation #4

Today was a good day with the students. I started the day helping students with their spelling words. One of the students if infamous for trying to take short cuts in writing his spelling sentences. For the word bake he wanted to write, "I bake". I worked with him and finally got him to write, "I baked a chocolate cake".

One of the students asked me if there were one letter words in English. I thought that was a VERY interesting question because one of the chapters that I just read for Linguistics covered that same topic! I asked the student what he thought and he said that he thinks that "I' and 'a' are words and I told him he was right. That was so smart of him!

I do not know if I have mentioned this in previous entries but one of the students has ADHD. I find him to be one of the most rewarding students to work with. He is so smart and kind and he really appreciates having one-on-one time with his teachers.

I find it difficult at times to keep the students on task but I think I have made a lot of progress in that area within the last week. It is refreshing because all of the students love to be in Mrs. Becker's room and this is going to sound cheesy but I can tell there is a lot of love in the room both from the teacher and the students.

Oh! I got to translate something for my teacher! I was so happy to do it because it gave me a chance to use some of my Spanish skills. She wanted me to translate a document that goes home to the parents of E.L.L. students about mandatory testing. She said she always wanted to know what it said. : )