Blog 8- Week 8 Mylan Park Elementary School

This past week was another wonderful week at Mylan Park Elementary School! Each and every day I am able to learn more and more from my mentor teacher, Ms. Walker, as well as from my students. Throughout this week, Ms. Walker allowed me to teach the majority of the day within the classroom which I enjoyed thoroughly! I taught this week two students about money and coins. I have to say that it is very rewarding when you teach students something that is very blurry in the beginning to them, and clear and understandable after a few days! Along with the money unit that I created, I was also able to teach the students reading and comprehension skills from their Journeys books, reinforce their weekly spelling words consistently, and assist during the collaborative math time within the computer lab. On Wednesday of this week, I was able to participate within the Egg Drop by measuring how far the students eggs landed from the target, and whether their egg cracked or was okay. This was an extremely exciting event and is great to see how creative so many students are with wrapping their eggs in order to stop them from cracking.


Also, throughout the week, Ms. Walker was kind enough to assist me with finding books and talking out my tentative timeline for the implementation of my Action Research within my classroom. I also was able to collect baseline data this week from my students that consisted of two different passages. The first passage I read to them, and then they answered questions. On the second passage, they had to read on their own and then answer questions. When I scored all of my students, the majority of them were most certainly struggling with the comprehension questions. The group that is struggling the most is going to be my target group. I plan on implementing my Action Research within the classroom three days a week; every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Monday I am going to read the story aloud to the students and create a discussion period; Wednesday the students will create an art project that will allow themselves to express the story; and Friday I am going to have the students bring the story to life through movement. I feel that implementing movement and the fine and creative arts within the classroom is really going to help students open up their minds, think in a new manner, and become more engaged and active readers that begin to show improvement with their reading and comprehension skills. I am excited to implement my Action Research within the classroom throughout the next six weeks!


One other activity that I was able to take part in this week was the parent-teacher conferences on Wednesday evening. From being apart of the conferences, I feel that I learned more background information on my students and their support system at home. I feel that the collaboration between teachers and parents is extremely important; however, I wish that more parents would become active in their child’s education and be better influences for them.


I am already looking forward to another exciting week at Mylan Park Elementary School! I feel that each and every day I learn how to become a better educator and to provide the best education possible for my students!