As with any teaching situation and classroom, you never know what the day will bring and flexibility is a must. Walked to school today only to find the baby class teacher did not show up. The P1 teacher was covering her class and baby class so I stepped in to help. Ran back to my apartment to gather a few teaching resources and books before heading back. The little ones were writing their lesson for the morning... Today is Wednesday 18th September 2013. My name is.... I am in baby class. Then they were matching first letter sounds to words. As they finished I transitioned them into coloring with color pages and colored pencils. Did music time with them and then after break we talked about rainbows... how they are made... the colors in order... and then read Ruby's rainbow and had the children draw rainbows and sing the colors ofnthe rainbow song.
My reflection on the story reading... the children were interested in the pictures. They did stay at their desks but wanted to repeat every word I said... especially the name of Max. Becuase they have no forms of media... they were unfamiliar with the cartoon characters of Maxand Ruby. This type of book would have been an immediate hit with the children on MKK because they had seen the cartoon. I am accustomed to children sitting quietly while listening to a book so it made it difficult for me to concentrate on reading. I also have to realize that the books I read the past few days had fewer words and were very simple. Curious how this type of storybook would go over with the mixed group of older children. Will have to try it during lunch time reading.
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