Intern Year

This past week has been more of an observation time for me. Since I just started in Mrs. Davis's class I wanted to take a little time to get to know her schedule and students. I did start participating with one student in math and written language. This student is in 2nd grade but doesn't know his lower case ABC's. I have been designing activities so we can work on these lower case letters. It has been a lot of fun working with him however he does lose attention on a task kind of easily so constant reinforcement has to be done. He seems to like working on his ABC's however when he doesn't know one he just tries to tell me a story instead of the answer. At that point I always know its a letter he doesn't know.
I also work with him in math. I am doing something with him that my host teacher is new to and that is 10 frames. I am teaching him to see hey there is 5 then two more instead of counting all seven of them. This is hard for him but with practice he is getting better at it. He also likes to play matching games with it so I think in the next week to come I am going to create a matching game where he matches the capital letter to the lower case letter. I think he will really like this and also learn at the same time. I am excited to work more with this class and eventually with time take over all the groups that come into the classroom.