BLOG 9- Week 9 Mylan Park Elementary School

This week at Mylan Park Elementary School was another great week! I taught throughout the week pretty much all of the groups that come to our room besides three. My first group we reviewed money and coins and I provided them with their first test with me. They did okay on their tests; however, I wish that they would have done better! After I graded the tests, I discovered their trouble areas and have been reviewing them each and everyday since the test. I have done a review with them everyday before we move on to learning all about time. They will be having a test with me next week on the unit of time as well as money. So far, after a lot of hard work, they are doing pretty well with it; however, we still need to work more on quarter to and quarter past the hour.


I have also continued to work with all of the reading groups. We have been working on “oi” words as well as words with “e” in them. Along with practicing the words, we also have been reading from the Journey’s books and having the students answer comprehension questions after the reading is complete.


I have begun my Action research this week and it has been quite successful. On Monday, I read to the students “When the Relatives Came”. We discussed the sequencing of the story as well as the “who,” “what,” “where”, “when,” and “why.” Also, I had my students write in their journals a self-to-text connection as to if they ever traveled and who they traveled with and where. They expressed their thoughts through writing as best as they could. On Wednesday, I allowed my students to express themselves through the fine and creative arts. They had to illustrate a picture of who they were traveling with and where they were going. They also had to create out of clay an image that they saw that woke them up at night. For example, one student made a train for at night that wakes her up; just like in the story all of the unfamiliar breathing wakes up the relatives at night. Finally, I had the students create their own steering wheels that they would use for the movement segment on Friday. On Friday, I introduced to the students movement and expressing the story through their bodies. We went over low, medium, and high levels, as well as fast, medium, and slow paces, and finally space awareness. Once the students understood all of that, they became the travelers within the classroom using their steering wheels driving up and down the mountains; the students were the sleepers waking up at the right cues within the music with imagining what was waking them up at night; and finally, the students were the huggers and hugging at all of the levels. Since half of the group was absent on Friday, they will have to take the quiz on the book on Monday right before beginning the new book for the upcoming week.

Also, I had to provide my students this week with the Acuity Tests in both reading and math. This took up a large portion of the day on Wednesday and had to continue for some of students onto Thursday. This test was very hard for many of my students due to them being way below their grade level and being unable to read the text or effectively answer the math problems.


I feel that on a whole this week was a wonderful week and that I learned a lot from teaching this week! I am excited for the upcoming week ahead and for the Halloween Parade on Friday! My teacher has been a wonderful mentor and am looking forward to learning from her and my students this upcoming week!