Sunday, December 18, 2011
Blog 5 Final Blog
Wow this class went by fast. Thank you to Charity and Ana Daisy for commenting on my blog more than once. Your comments opened my eyes up to some new ideas that I will take with me in the future. Reading through the blogs of my colleagues helped me learn new ideas about advocacy and working with young children in general. I hope that everyone did great in the class and hopefully learned new ideas like myself. I hope that I have given advice to others that they will take with them in their new opportunities after this class. I only have one class left I hope that my colleagues in that class will be as helpful as those that were in this class. Good luck to everyone with their future classes and careers! Thanks again!!!
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Sunday, December 4, 2011
Module 4 Blog
Ok so I am not sure why my blog never got posted but I am reposting hopefully this works this time...
During this week of observation I got to sit in and observe a first grade classroom that had two parents come in and participate in small group activities, one of which was reading aloud to a small group of six students. The first book that the mom read to the group was called, "The Everything Machine." It was a book about how this machine in a town started doing everything for the people of the town and when it broke they had forgotten how to do the simple tasks of daily live. It was funny to see how the kids interpreted the book when the mom was asking questions afterwards. One of the kids said that his mom is the everything machine at their house and another kid asked why he does not see an everything machine where they live. After listening to another book I was able to talk to one classroom mom that had come into help for the day.
One of the first questions I asked was what she enjoys about coming into help during the day. She replied by saying that she enjoys to see her kid along with the other kids interacting within the classroom because it is not something that all parents get to see. She told me that it helps her think of new ideas for at home to help her son out with his homework and other areas. The mom also said that her son's teacher is very helpful when it comes to if parents have questions or concerns. She stated that she emails frequently to all parents letting them know what is coming up next and what they can look forward to their child learning and being able to do. I thought that this was a great idea. I know that some schools, hopefully most schools, do newsletters for the classroom but as I have found out by doing newsletters within the center that I work at some parents just do not read over all the information. I think that emails between parents and teachers can be a more effective way of communication because the parents can access the email anywhere; phone, home and work in most cases. Emails can be a quick way to send a parents a helpful link to a website that they could benefit from using at home. There are so many free websites for children that do enhance their learning skills that I think a lot of parents do not know about.
During this week of observation I got to sit in and observe a first grade classroom that had two parents come in and participate in small group activities, one of which was reading aloud to a small group of six students. The first book that the mom read to the group was called, "The Everything Machine." It was a book about how this machine in a town started doing everything for the people of the town and when it broke they had forgotten how to do the simple tasks of daily live. It was funny to see how the kids interpreted the book when the mom was asking questions afterwards. One of the kids said that his mom is the everything machine at their house and another kid asked why he does not see an everything machine where they live. After listening to another book I was able to talk to one classroom mom that had come into help for the day.
One of the first questions I asked was what she enjoys about coming into help during the day. She replied by saying that she enjoys to see her kid along with the other kids interacting within the classroom because it is not something that all parents get to see. She told me that it helps her think of new ideas for at home to help her son out with his homework and other areas. The mom also said that her son's teacher is very helpful when it comes to if parents have questions or concerns. She stated that she emails frequently to all parents letting them know what is coming up next and what they can look forward to their child learning and being able to do. I thought that this was a great idea. I know that some schools, hopefully most schools, do newsletters for the classroom but as I have found out by doing newsletters within the center that I work at some parents just do not read over all the information. I think that emails between parents and teachers can be a more effective way of communication because the parents can access the email anywhere; phone, home and work in most cases. Emails can be a quick way to send a parents a helpful link to a website that they could benefit from using at home. There are so many free websites for children that do enhance their learning skills that I think a lot of parents do not know about.
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