Reinink, Reflection #2

Just as I mentioned in the first lesson reflection, this lesson went super great as well! My MT and I have been so surprised how well these two students have done with me throughout these past two lessons. I really think that they need to do more hands-on, interactive game-like lessons in order to stimulate their brains. Throughout this lesson they were catching on, a little slower than the first lesson but by the end they were telling me the amount of sounds in the tougher words like ‘Jesus’. I was super proud of them and felt very accomplished. At first they were both struggling with the fact that not all words had the same amount of sounds per the amount of letters in the word. I can see why this would be confusing. By the end they were doing it completely by themselves and really liked the words with more sounds because that meant they got more bean bags and more throws for more points.

A strength in this lesson was that the children were learning how to identify sounds in words they learned in the previous week or already knew. I used the same set of words I used in my previous lesson. This allowed familiarity to help them  at first learn how to hear the different sounds. Again like the first lesson, I only focused on the 24 words. However, this lesson could allow me in the future use as many or as little amount of words as possible. Like the first lesson, this lesson also did not allow the students to see the words in a sentence, which may have been more beneficial, and a limitation to the students. However, the students seemed to learn a lot from this lesson from the way it was set up!

As a teacher again I noticed that I was quick to correct them. After the first few times I caught myself and stopped correcting them. I also caught myself getting frustrated with them when I KNEW they knew the answer but for some reason wasn’t saying the right word or correct amount of sounds. They had showed me before they knew those sounds and words but seemed to act like they did not at times, and it made me annoyed and felt like we were going backwards. What do I do in that situation?