Recess Observation

Elaboration: Upon my arrival on my first day, the students were at recess. However due to weather, the students had indoor recess, which was a little intimidating at first, but also gave me an advantage to interact with the students before class started. After recess the students then had their reading groups. There were three groups. One group worked with Mrs. Lundberg, another group worked with her paraeducator, and the third group did independent reading. I decided to do one-on-one reading with a few students. The students have individual baskets in which they keep their books for independent reading.The last student that I read with worked very diligently, and loved to read with someone. The student separates herself from the others so

The most interesting part was attending the specialties that the students had, such as their health class, early literature class, and counseling. For each of these there was a different teacher. During health I was able to assist, in activities. However while observing part of the lecture, I learned that I didn’t like the classroom management that was being used. During early literature, the students were read a book and then wrote story about the same theme. Then there was counseling. The students had earned a game day in counseling, so they were able to play games until recess. When recess came around, I went outside and helped Mrs. Lundberg with recess duty. It was very interesting, when I had multiple students come up to me to tattle. I wasn’t entirely sure how to handle the problem at first, because the tattling was all over students not being able to play nice while playing tag. I asked Mrs. Lundberg what actions should be taken and she had told me that if the students couldn’t play nice to tell them that then they would ban tag and no one could play. So then at the end of recess the students were told exactly

One of my favorites was her little library in the classroom. As I mentioned in the elaboration the students have baskets filled with books. The books come from a little library that Mrs.Lundberg has in her room. They are categorized by genre/topic,and every few days the students have book shopping where they can exchange books, and I love the idea of it! I also love the behavior chart that Mrs.Lundberg has. Instead of taking away recess, she has a chart and if the student misbehaves their pin is lowered. At the end of the day depending on how far up or down the pin is the student can hole punch a card and when they fill the card they get a prize. I plan on incorporating both of these ideas into my