Improvements: I am recording this entry immediately after teaching my first class--Kindergarten. It is only 20 minutes long, but I have often basic logistical problems such as having the seats arranged in time for the children when they come in, not tripping over the seats, and being able to put them back in time for the next class that I bring in.
This is what I did today, and maybe only because my having to be practical and the urgency of simultaneously getting things done and teaching the students effectively must be done by midyear prior to standardized testing:
1) Arranged a calendar station by the door. Also on that table, I can put the ESOL cardboardshopping scene ("Just Around the Corner" realia) .
2) I placed the seats not too far away from the station, near the Pledge of Allegiance flag--convenient because we always say the Pledge together at that time.
3) The story I selected, Come! Sit! Speak!, had a purpose: to emphasize the appropriate contexts for shopping--place and time.
4) I was also able to utilize a manipulative calendar, assessing the students' ability to count to 10 and show me their familiarity with the days of the week. Even the newly arrived kindergartener was able to count to 10, even though she is not acculturated to school at all. I was impressed that another child, with the least vocabulary, was able to say all the days of the week starting with Sunday. Yet another child was familiar with the two weekend days, when we don't have school: Saturday and Sunday.
Good start to the day!
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