WEEK TWO- Daily Log: Monday, February 26, 2007

• Today was my favourite day yet because I actually had a chance to work one on one with the students. When I first arrived at my placement I began my typing routine and saw that I had made a significant dent in the pile from my extensive work on Friday. I then made my way to Mrs. Cioccio's grade six class with Mme. Mercer.
• Today Mme. Mercer assigned a french passage that was accompanied with a few comprehension questions. Mme. sent five students from each of our classes to come with me to the library where I would be able to work with them. The passage dealt with a new computer program that translates french into enlgish, which turns out to go haywire in the end. I read the passage with my group of five, and made sure that they understood the general content so they would be able to answer the corresponding questions. Some of the kids had an immense amount of difficulty in understanding the story. This meant that I had to pay an even closer amount of attention to them so that I could help them get on track.
• I then explained what the students had to do, and let them do their work. I constantly helped the students when they asked for my help, and this made me feel as if they were accepting me in their learning environment. I did this for both of my classes and found that each of my groups were extremely different-one being loud and disruptive, the other being quiet and focused. Even though I was doing the same activity with both groups, I noticed that because of the different children it seemed as if I was leading two different acitivities.
• For the rest of the day I spent my time typing and making some headyway on the charts. I worked from 11:53-2:53 today-three hours.