I decided to come a half day toady because all my observations have been at the end of the day. Mrs. Stempinski is coming to observe me and I think it will go well. Kathryn was observed before me by Mrs. Stempinski and I think she did a good job. Her lesson was over the steps of the writing process. My lesson went well even though I made a few mistakes. Mrs. Stempinski told me what I did wrong and what I should do to make my lesson better. I will make sure that my next lesson is changed so I do not make the same mistakes with Dr. Southerland.

Today is my first observed lesson. Mrs. Garner come to see me teach the kindergardeners a lesson on the letter "B" at the end of the day. The second grade students students are working on pronouns and they are doing very well. Ms. Schumack used the promethean board to do an activity on pronouns. The students love having lessons on the promethean board, so Ms. Schumack uses it every day. Kathyern taught the third graders an amazing lesson on pronouns today. The students were very well behaved because her lesson was engaging and entertaining. I did not get to teach my lesson to the kindergardeners today because they participated in a Thanksgiving program at the time of my observation. I told Mrs. Garner that I would send her a video of my lesson so she could still give me a grade. She told me that would be fine and that some plans just don't work out.

Ms. Schumack is giving the classes a test to determine what she should focus on in her next lesson. Mrs. Meritt's third grade class was struggling with  possessives, plural, and singular words. Some students did not understand when the s was added to plural words and most of the students had trouble making words possessive. Ms. Schumack divided Mrs. Meritt's ELLs into three groups for centers. I worked with each group on making words possessive. The students understood how to make single words possessive but struggled when working with sentences. I gave them some howe work so they could practice independently and hopefully they do we'll. The home work assignment will show me what students need to be individually helped. I might also have to modify my teaching strategy so the students learn the material.

Today I started my ESOL block. My teacher is Ms. Schumack and she has been teaching for three years. She has two third, two second, and two kindergarden classes that she teaches throughout the school day. Ms. Schumake pushes-in for her kindergarden and third grade math classes. She took Kathryn and I to her first push-in class where they were learning about pictographs. Ms. Schumack assisted Ms. Merritt's while she taught her math lesson. During the pull-out classes Ms. Schumack works with the classroom teacher to increase the students language skills outside the classroom. The second and third grade pull-out classes are working on the writing process. The small class size makes it easy to get to know each student and the student enjoy what they are learning.