Observation 2

The students were just getting done with their testing as I came through the door. I helped clean up the desk while Mrs. Wagner took the students back to their room. As I was waiting for Mrs. Wagner to return, I observed Gach do his math. Now he is working on his 9 in multiplication. Gach was actually better at the 9’s than his 8’s.

Mrs. Wagner came back and I went to observe her group. This group was third graders. She was teaching the student pronouns. It was interesting how fast some students are able to catch on and how others struggles. When Mrs. Wagner got done with pronouns, the students continued working on their worksheet they did not get done. They were filling their worksheet related to the book that they read. I went around helping, giving, suggestions, and answering questions students had.

Mrs. Wagner talked about cause and effect as well. I thought it was funny how the students would guess the cause and not know the effect. I felt like they were on the right track but weren’t there fully. It was time for this group to go back so Mrs. Wagner took them back.

I waited for the next group. The second group that came back was Mrs. Wagner were second graders. Again, Mrs. Wagner talked about pronouns. I noticed that it was harder for this group to understand pronouns. Maybe it was because they are second graders so it takes longer for them to get the idea down.

Eventually, they got the idea of pronoun. Mrs. Wagner gave them each two words. The students were to come up with two sentences using the words given to them. One student seemed to be having a hard time coming up with his sentences so Mrs. Wagner helped him. One of the words each student received was in the past tense, present tense, and future tense. They shared their sentences. As they were sharing and Mrs. Wagner was explaining the tense, I thought back to when I was taught my tenses. I am not too sure if things have changed but I thought second grad was a bit too early to introduce them to tenses.