wednesday 19.8.2010

Reflective Diary

Wednesday 18.8.2010

Tearful Wednesday, everyone must have had late nights last night because right from the first bell students were crying at the drop of a hat. Adrian was hysterically sobbing because he lost his 20 cents, Adelaide couldn’t make words in between her tears as Jacinta wrapped her receipt book (apparently her most prized possession.) Maddison cried when someone used her rubber, Janae was really upset because half way through maths she wanted her mum. Sometimes I just think giving them a cuddle makes everything OK... but if I think back to kindergarten and remember how big a deal everything was when your five..that's what I would have wanted.

So much crying in just one day. Sometimes it’s easy to forget how little these kids are and sometimes the smallest things are in fact the biggest.

Describe:

I pushed the kids in the literacy block this morning, students had heaps of grammar assessment to complete so I told them that if they got their assessments done we would play some fun sight words games. They managed to finish all their assessments.The little monsters worked so so hard. I was so impressed it was alot of writing. So we played sight words games, sang some nursery rhymes( which they love, they blow the roof off the building with their beautiful singing.) and finished coloring in our gingerbread men.

Analyse:

Had to prompt them to keep them on task quite a lot, we had stretch breaks and I tried to give as much positive feedback as I could focusing on the people doing the right thing constantly. But really I cant expect too much more from them, it was a big stretch. ( I hate assessment week) I had to give them a reward for their hard work at the end, which they appreciated.

Plan:

Its hard with revision and assessment weeks to plan for next time as there isn’t a lot of new content just refreshing memory. But it just goes to show how important consolidation with kindergarten is as they forget things so easily. The things that you often think they will remember they often don’t and then the things that you think they will forget they usually remember just to surprise you.

At recess time, I opened one of the boys lunch box to find a whole banana stuffed in two pieces of bread absolutely smothered in nutella.. I found it hilarious..