Mylan Park Elementary School Nov 8-Nov 12 2010

This week was another wonderful week at Mylan Park Elementary School! I continued to work with my math group on regrouping with subtraction. Today, I gave them a quiz and one of them received a 100% which made me feel so proud of them as well as for knowing that I accomplished teaching them something that they currently have mastered. Next week I will be providing my math group with a unit test on money, time, regrouping with addition, and regrouping with subtraction. I feel that this test will truly assess how well they really know money, time, and regrouping with addition and subtraction.


Throughout the week I have also worked with my reading groups on letter and sound patterns in words, syllables, and vowels, as well as continuously reinforcing their spelling words. I also have been working on with the students in their Journeys guided reading books. I feel that slowly some of the students are really beginning to read more fluently than they have in the past. They also tend to be keying in important details that are present within the text.


This week for my Action Research my students read “The Farmer In The Soup”. The students took turns within the group reading the story aloud. The students began to create very good discussions throughout the story and was proud of them for promoting informal, whole group discussions. Once the students read through the story, they then completed two acrostic poems; one poem described the farmer and one poem described the wife. For the next class session, the students are expected to label a major event that occurred in the beginning of the story, at the middle of the story, and finally at the end of the story. Once they have completed this task, they then will need to express through their bodies the farmer in the beginning, middle, and end of the story. They will be expected to choreograph their own movement segment that correlates with that part of the story. I am really excited to finish out this weeks action research and see how creative my students will be!


During this week I have also been working with the writing group. I have been reviewing with the students how to write a paragraph, as well as how to write a letter and formally set up a letter. Currently, the students are writing a letter about what they are thankful for. It is very interesting to see how creative they are when they are provided with a writing prompt. I am excited to read their letters on what they are thankful for and who they chose to write their letters to.


I feel that this week was another fantastic week at Mylan Park Elementary School and am continuously learning from my mentor teacher, Ms. Walker, as well as from my students. I am really looking forward to sitting in two of my students IEP meetings in the upcoming week. I am already looking forward to another wonderful week at Mylan Park Elementary School; however, I am very sad that I only have a few weeks left in my current placement.