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That´s how I feel inside the classroom.

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What do you find useful of the lesson that will help you plan the next one?

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-I believe that recycling resources that children liked in previous lessons was great.
-Besides, changing the activities after short periods of time was useful to keep children engaged.

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Choose a moment that was important for children during the lesson. Describe it and say why it was important.

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Choose a moment that was important for children during the lesson. Describe it and say why it was important.

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I think the children were able to enjoy all the stages since they wanted to participe in each activity I presented.

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The presentation period was amazing because all the children wanted to touch and discover what I had inside the bags.
Moreover, Romeo showed me once more how important it is the rapport with our students. As soon as I got to the classroom he hugged me and said: "I missed you Celeste." In addition, at the end of the class, he came up and asked me for more time to explore the toys. He was really suprised when I let him touch the boat.

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What aspects of your lesson do you consider successful?

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I think that the most meaningful thing was the almost all of them wanted to participate in the activities proposed.
What aspects need improvement?
As I had to finish my plan on time, I didn´t let children time to explore the material as they needed.
It´s something that doesn´t happen to me while I´m developing my real classes because I don´t care on time, but on the quality of the activities.

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How did students react to your teaching and materials? How did they react to the lesson?

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How did students react to your teaching and materials? How did they react to the lesson?

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Children were engaged with the activities and resources used. They liked the use of toys.

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-Variety of resources to focus on learners´different intelligences.
-The use of realia (toys) to invite children guess and explore in order to create some curiosity.

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I loved seeing how children enjoyed working together. They never paid attention to how well  the other groups were working, but they were involved in their own puzzles.

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What do you find useful of the lesson that will help you plan the next one?

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Definitely, cooperative wok functions very well.

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There were more than one important moment for me this time:
-Realizing that children were able to remember songs I presented them was great because it means not only that they paid attention the classes before, but also that they liked them.
-Observing children solving the puzzle alone was great since it means that although they are very young they can resolve situations by themselves as well. We need to let them explore in their own pace.
-Watching children´s atonished faces when I presented the story was really nice because it shows us that the more we motivate children, the better results we will get.

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I wrapped the book as if it was a present before presenting the story. So, I created some suspence by pushing the different sounds that appear in the story (frog, water, boat, rabbit and bird.) without showing them what the present was.
They really enjoyed this moment.

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I think the idea of asking children to solve the puzzle was great since they were able to work independently and cooperatively.
What aspects need improvement?
-After some children finished the activity, I     didn´t give them an activity or game to play all together on the floor in order to let the other children time to finish it.
So, it is something I need to consider when I plan similar activities.
-I also asked children to paste the puzzle on a paper, before they finish matching all the pieces. That´s I gave them two instructions instead of only one.

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How did students react to your teaching and materials? How did they react to the lesson?

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How did students react to your teaching and materials? How did they react to the lesson?

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First, I observed that after two classes presenting them the "Hello, Weather and Bye-bye songs", children were able to sing the songs with me.
Fortunately, they reacted very well to the game and story I presented today. They were very curious about discovering what was hidden in the puzzle.
In addition, they were attentive to the story and liked the sounds the book contains.

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I shared with kids the story: "Row, row, row your boat."

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-I asked the teacher a list with the names of kids to call them using their names.
-The use of varided resources (story, sounds,  the song, the puzzle) function very well with this group.
- The use of cooperative work to solve the was fruitful.

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Well, unexpected things happened. The English teacher was in a meeting. Consequently, the classroom teacher observed my performance today.
She was really kind with me and that made me feel more secure. After the class, she took some minutes to explain me good issues about my class and things to improve also.

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My third class is comming! I´m really enthusiastic preparing the material! We are going to start talking about boat

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My third class is comming! I´m really enthusiastic preparing the material! We are going to start talking about boat

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This picture was taken yesterday morning in Ushuaia.

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Although I didn´t find the right metaphor to describe this lesson, I think that the following picture can summarize some of my feelings about it. 

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Although I didn´t find the right metaphor to describe this lesson, I think that the following picture can summarize some of my feelings about it. 

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What do you find useful of the lesson that will help you plan the next one?

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What do you find useful of the lesson that will help you plan the next one?

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-Continue working with routines will be fruitful for kids.
-Providing different kinds of activities in order to focus on multiple intelligences is also useful to catch the children´s attention.
-Continue working with songs, games, visual support, activities that involved movement, etc

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Definitely playing with the dice, during the warm-up stage, was a joyful moment of the lesson. Children loved it because they had to act as if they were babies crying over and over again.

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-First, it was really nice to see children´s happy faces when they saw me at the entrance door.
-I loved to see how engaged were children with the game. It was really funny for them
-Besides, I really appreciated when the local observer asked me whether I needed a hand while I was spreading copies and pencils.

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What aspects of your lesson do you consider successful?

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What aspects of your lesson do you consider successful?

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I think children were engaged in all the activities proposed.
In my opinion, it is really useful to change the kind of activities since they can get involved more easily.

What aspects require improvement?
-Perhaps, preparing shorter activities without too much repetition would be more engaging for kids. -In addition, this will contribute to end the lesson more appropriately since we couldn´t finish coloring the last activity.
-Besides, I usually have helpers in my groups. However, as I was very nervous I didn´t realize to name some children to be my helpers.

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How did students react to your teaching and materials? How did they react to the lesson?

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How did students react to your teaching and materials? How did they react to the lesson?

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They were very receptive to my teaching as well as the materials proposed. They really enjoyed playing with the dice.
However, I realized that they are not used to listening to stories because I had call some of them attention more than once by showing pictures nearer or repeating things faster and then slowly, for example.

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What strategies did I use?
- I used a variety of activities in order to call everyone´s attention: a) Songs,   b) Bodily kinesthetic activities, c) Game,  d) Coloring activity,  e) Telling a story.

-I asked noise boys to sit near me.

-I tried to catch everyone´s attention by naming the children with the teacher´s help, touching them, showing flashcards nearer to those kids who were distracted, etc.
-I change my voice once during the story and children laughed at it.
-I changed my voice speed during the song and that called their attention.

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I really hope I can have  a better experience with the camera next time. Unfortunately, it was really frustrating for me when I realized I didn´t film the lesson to have an appropriated feedback from our teacher.

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I don´t know if it is the most appropriated metaphor. However, I´m completely sure that every little vibrant experience in the classroom will be in children´s heart for ever.

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Describe this lesson in terms of a metaphor.

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Describe this lesson in terms of a metaphor.

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Choose a moment that was important for the students during the lesson. Describe it and say why it was important.

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Although I observed children were engaged in most of the class, I think that one of the most important moments for them during the lesson was while they were watching the video, singing the song and miming it at the same time. (The second time I played the video)
I really think it was a significant moment for them because it was a combination of activities: Singing, dancing, miming and watching

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Heart and love related cupcake wrappers, edible cupcake decorations and sprinkles

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love and heart related cupcake wrappers, cupcake decorations and sprinkles

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I can´t deny you that the most important moment of the lesson was when Romeo, the child I touched and talked to during the observation period,  hugged me and said he was going to be waiting for me. As soon as I went out of the classroom, some tears of happiness rolled on my face. For me,  those words meant that I was able to touch a little heart.

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What do you find useful of this lesson that will help you plan the next one?

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What do you find useful of this lesson that will help you plan the next one?

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-The use of a starting routine.
-The use of videos, games, songs, flashcards, etc.
-Asking noisy children to stay near me and be my helpers. That was really useful.
-Indicating children the class ends by singing them a song and inviting them to sleep in order to wait for the music teacher.

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Well, these kids are not used to have a routine in English. As a consequence, I loved how involved they were while I sang them "The hello song" and "The weather song".
In addition, the use of a bus made with boxes, a real horn, etc. captured their attention. And, they enjoyed watching the video with the song. Actually, they were very enthusiastic when I invited them to mime and sing the song presented.
Also, I think it was very useful to have a song prepared for the clousure time since it let them know that the class ended.

What aspects of the lesson require changes/improvement?
I think that the 2 aspects I need to improve are:
a) I have to explain children the instructions first, and then, I have to spread them the copies, flashcards, etc. in order to be sure that they understood the idea. (That was what I me fail in the practice period. )
b) I have to check better whether all the technological resources are working properly because this time I turned on the camera but I didn´t start filming the class.

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How did the students react to your teaching, to the activities and the materials? How did they react to the lesson?

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How did the students react to your teaching, to the activities and the materials? How did they react to the lesson?

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Actually, in general, I was surprised to see that children reacted very well to the activities and the materials I provided them. They were curious, enjoyed the video, interacted with me and loved miming the song.
And, I was able to give the whole class in English.

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Well, what teaching strategies did I use?

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Well, what teaching strategies did I use?

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- I used visual support like, flashcards in order to reinforce what I was saying.
- Miming was another useful strategy I used. .
- In order to ask for silence I sang children Mr Owl song.
- As I observed that children like videos I brouhgt a video to share with them with the purpose to capture their attention.
Here is the link of the video I presented:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjAiTA91-gs
-Besides, I invited children  to develop a body kinesthetic activity to encourage them participate.

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In the pictures above you can see the bus I used during the warm-up stage. 

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In the pictures above you can see the bus I used during the warm-up stage. 

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As the educator is working with kids about means of transport in our city, she asked my to follow her own project. 

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As the educator is working with kids about means of transport in our city, she asked my to follow her own project. 

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As children were coming from physical education and their English teacher wasn´t inside the classroom yet, I waited for her outside the classroom. So, children came up and hugged me. I greeted them in English and some of them replied.
I realized that they were calmer than the class before.
The teacher asked them to make a circle and greeted them.
Then, she explained in Spanish what they were supposed to do and reinforced her instructions by drawing  a colorful train on the board.
It was great to see that children were amazed to draw in black papers with wet chalks. All of them were engaged in the activity. As soon as some of them finished the activity, the teacher let them to play with blocks in order to let their partners end their trains.
This time, I was less anxious since I observed children could also enjoy developing quiet activities.

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There I was at last, full of emotions and ready to meet the 25 kids.
As soon as I got to the classroom children asked their teacher who I was. So, she told them  about me.
Then, they all sang me a welcome song in Spanish.
To be honest, it was a hard morning to the teacher since students came from physical education full of energy. Consequently, they were very noisy and they weren´t able to concentrate on the activities proposed. Some of them misbehave most of the class.
In addition, I observed that little English was spoken along the class and I thought how it was going to be possible to give a complete class speaking English.
Although it was a difficult day, I was able to realize that those children love watching videos and moving.
Besides, there was a magic moment when I touched on of the boy´s shoulder in order to help the teacher calm the group. I talked to him softly in English while I mimed what I was saying. And, to my surprise, the whole room was in silence.

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Well, I made 3 interviews at the institution. The first  one to the head and the others to 2 English teachers.
- Along the interview, the head was able to transmit me not only very important aspects of the institution which are crucial to be known, such as the importance of the cooperative work, but also she was able to transmit her passion for the job she does. In fact, she told me she have been working at the institution for 22 years now and she loves doing so.
-Actually, I made the same questions to one of the English teachers, and, it was a great fortune that her answers mostly agreed with the head´s ones.
- The third interview I made was to the local observer. In that case, the purpose of the interview was to know important issues about the group of students I was going to work with.

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As soon as got in touch with the head of the kidergarten, I felt  very welcome. She opened me  the institution doors very enthusiastic.
Actually, she explained me that the key of success along this period is to relax and enjoy every little stage since each teacher had been in my place before becoming a real educator.

How did I feel?
There are no words to describe my feelings. But, you can be sure that I was full of happiness.
I´m a very emotional person and I couldn´t believe that this day got at last after many years of hard work.