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Journal #3


Journal #3

Yulisa Cardozo Romero

Date: May 17th 2019    

Write a reflection about the classes you oriented this week (bear in mind the following aspects: what you planned, what you did, and what you would do differently if you were to teach your lessons again). Give examples and descriptions of those situations that, in your view, are relevant to your learning experience. 
First grade. On Monday we started a new topic that was personal information. I started introducing myself and students had to guess what the topic was about, in fact, they guessed that the topic was personal information. Then, I made questions to students about their favorite animal, favorite color and so on. Finally, they had to complete a format or handout with their personal information and they had as homework to prepare an oral a small presentation about themselves taking into account the information that they wrote in the handout. On Wednesday, I had prepared a listening about 5 kids talking about their personal information and students had to complete a format according to the listening. The format had some blanks such as “name, age, favorite color, favorite animal and favorite number” that students had to complete. I was not sure about this activity because maybe it could not work as I was expecting. I was not completely sure to do this activity but I made the decision because I know the capacities that they have in order to complete the activity. In fact, they performed very well the activity, was easy for them to gather the information that they needed. The only issue was that a girl did not know to write, but she gathered all the information from the listening, in this case, she reported me orally the information that she gathered from the listening.


Second grade. We started a new topic that was about clothes and accessories. I presented the vocabulary with flashcards, then we did practice activities such as I mentioned a cloth or accessory and students had to say which was it in Spanish, the other activity was that I had a vocabulary word to a student and s/he had to make charades and their classmates had to guess what it was. Then, we played bingo and finally, students named kind of clothes that they wear on some occasions. For instance, they mentioned that at the school they wear uniform, at party girls wear dresses and the boys wear elegant shirts with jeans. We did not have class on Wednesday with them because it was the teacher’s day celebration.

Kindergarten. We started the class with a song that they are learning, then I exposed the numbers from 1 to 10 around the classroom. I played some music and students had to walk or dance around the classroom.  I stopped the music suddenly, I called out a number and students had to go and touch the number that I mentioned. They performed very well the activity and they liked it a lot, I also liked the fact that they were dancing and at the same time they were practicing numbers. We continued playing “Simon Says” using the music and the same dynamic but in this case in making groups of people. The other activity was scramble numbers where students had to order the sequence of numbers. We also played a bingo and memory card game. I have to prepare many activities with them because they perform the activities very well and in a quick way.

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