Field Experience: Day Three

In the morning the student's did their "Daily Five" again while Mrs.Eichten took one of the reading groups. A couple of girls have been wanting to read to me all week and they finally got to read a book to me yesterday so they were pretty excited! Mrs. Eichten asked me if I could help on of the little girls who was struggle with counting money while she was with the reading groups. So me and the little girl sat on a back table and we used the big bucket of play money they have to help her count because it's easier for her to physically see it in front of her. She told me it was really important that she learns how to count money and I told her that was very true and the more we practice that better she will get at it :) She was so determined to learn how to do this, how can't you love helping a child who is so motivated. After reading time they went over some vocabulary words and they got to play a memory game with the words, if they found a match they would have to use that word in a nice descriptive sentence in order to keep the pair. I played with a little boy and he was pretty excited that he beat me TWICE ;) In the afternoon they had math and they worked on counting money again. Mrs. Eichten wrote some problems on the board and the students got to go work out the problems on the board. They were also working on the greater than and less than sign, I really like the way the teacher taught it. She would tell them the big number gets to dots : and the little number gets one dot . then you connect the dots to make an arrow. They really seemed to understand this, it seemed like a great way to explain it. For health they learned about the different parts of teeth and they took a group tests on it after the teacher reviewed the material.