This week was my second week in Ms. C's classroom. This week I was in the classroom 2 days. During this week I was able to grade students spelling test and also help them with their classwork. In the morning they go to four different centers around the room.
I think that the students are more comfortable with me and enjoy it when I am there with them. I really enjoy being there and talking to the students. I like working with the students when they are in centers because then I can work with a specific group on one piece of work.
I noticed that the after centers are over and students return to the carpet she announces the scores for their Reading Counts test (test students take after reading a book). One student has almost 40 points while others still struggle to get 1. Everyday the teacher says who gained a points and who still needs work. Ms. C has a leader-board in the front of the classroom saying the top five students with the most points in the class.
On one day that I was there the students were being exceptionally well behaved. So as a reward the teacher let the students go outside and play a game for a little while.
Ms. C got a new student this week. P only speaks Spanish so being in a English based classroom will be hard for her. The teacher attempts to speak to P in spanish but Ms. C's spanish isn't that good and is hard for P to understand. The day I was observing the classroom P was told to read during center time. The books she was reading were in English though and she obviously cant understand that. I hope Ms. C has a more permanent scheduled for P.
It would be difficult to imagine how it feels to be so isolated from all of the others when the language is different...yet, depending on how these situations are approached, the language barrier can be quickly overcome. I hope the best for P and know you will be there to support her.
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