Week 6-Montague

Noticing Blog

            This week I have noticed how awesome my teacher is at read alouds. She read the Rumplestiltskin fairy tail to the whole class and the class was engaged in the story like I have never seen before! I noticed that to do this, she put a lot of expression and animation into her voice and body movements. She also did a great job at getting the kids to act out during parts of the story. For example, when the girl in the story “weeped” she started crying and all of the kids started crying. She also used this to point out new words like weeping. Later when the queen was sobbing, she did the same sort of thing and asked the students what sobbed meant, what weeped meant and how they were the same/different. There were other opportunities for the kids to act out too. For example, when the King stomped a whole in the ground, the kids got to stomp on the ground.            

            Overall, I think that this is important because it shows how easily you can grasp children’s attention if done correctly. It also shows how much of an impact you can make o a child’s learning if you show that you love what you are teaching. After the story, during writer’s workshop, children were asked to write (draw) about their favorite part in the story. A lot of times, children usually pick the same part to draw about but this time, they all chose different parts so that was really awesome to see. This went so well that all of the work is being displayed in the hallway. I think that this is a case of how showing your passion for something really impacts those around you. It is important because if we can make our kids believe we love something that we’re teaching, especially if it is something we really don’t like, they are going to notice it and hopefully it will spur a love for that same thing in them. I hope that I can be just as passionate as my MT was with everything or at least most of the things that I teach so that I can have a positive influence on my students’ learning.