A Different View

Week Number Two
Day Number Nine
Hours Worked: 7:30-10 (Total hours worked: 3 1/2 hours)

Today was my second early morning. When I got to the school, Ms. Wallace informed me that today was another NEWA testing day. During that time while they were in testing I went over to Mr. Hubbard's classroom, the other third grade classroom next door. During Ms. Wallace's morning work time I was able to respond to a reading response! It felt really good to respond to a students reading response because I felt like I was getting better, and doing more when It came to correcting, it also gave me a chance to work on my cursive!

Time for Mr. Hubbard's classroom! When I walked into their classroom they were already excited that I was in their class for a little bit. Once I walked into the classroom they were already calling me Ms. Ray and were asking me for help with their math problems. They were doing the page that my class had already done a couple of days ago, so i was a pro at that page!

Once difference between the teaching of Ms. Wallace and Mr. Hubbard is that Mr. Hubbard waits until everyone is done with the page and then they go over the questions as a class. If someone gets a question wrong, they go over that question as a class. In Ms. Wallace's class when a student is done with the page, they find a partner who is also done with the questions and they go over them together.

Tomorrow both classes are having a chapter nine test. So Mr. Hubbard made the class a study guide so they could review for tomorrow. Mr. Hubbard gave me a copy of the study guide with the answers written on it. While I was walking around helping the class with their questions, I also looked over what work they have already done and made sure they had the correct answers to study from tonight. There was one question that they all had a problem with, so Mr. Hubbard stopped everyone and they went over that question as a class to make sure that everyone knew what they were doing. There were some questions that involved money, so Mr. Hubbard had some fake money that they could use so that they could visually see the problem.

I really liked going over to another class because it gave me a chance to see how different teachers teach. It was also nice to be around a different group of kids, and see how they acted in a classroom. Monday is Share Day and I will be staying at the school and working with the kindergarten, which will be interesting because it again gives me a chance to see not only how another classroom works, but how to work with a different age group.