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Young

Small

Westminster Students

1st Graders

Diverse

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Some questions I asked were basic questions about their maze; how they wanted it to be, where it started, how it was going to work, etc...

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While we were there they had just begun the building process of their mazes. This came with lots of struggles and hard work

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A lot of them had obstacles or characters in their mazes and whenever I saw this I asked why they used the characters or objects they did, what was their inspiration?

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They had a lot gluing to do with this project, so there was a lot of hot glue gun usage. I was sure to carefully observe this as there could be many possible problems with this. The main struggle I saw were with controlling the glue gun, like getting the glue to come out and things like that

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At the beginning of class before they went to their respective stations they all had to gather the materials they needed for the building process. They already had a very organized spot where the materials were, called "home depot". This process of gathering materials mostly went smooth, but the one problem was that all of the kids were there at once. This made it very chaotic and crowded, there could be a possible system put in to fix taht

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They did not ask as many questions as I thought they would, this including random questions, asking for help, etc... The couple of question I did get were when they needed help, mainly with the glue guns. So the glue guns could possibly be the thing they struggled with the most and might need something to help them

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I avoided question like, do you think this would work better? and do you think what you have will be effective? I avoided these questions because I think it could have ruined their confidence and made them not believe in their ideas and their work

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One thing I did not see much of that surprised me wad the kids getting distracted. I expected them to get super distracted talking to each other and just goofing off, but they were very focused.

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One thing I saw was the kids trying to follow their blueprint exactly how they draw it. The problem with this is that some of them had very unrealistic drawings, like having a super curvy wall. This lead to them struggling with the materials because they were trying to make them do something that they couldn't

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I heard a lot of talking between the 1st graders, I expected this talk to be off topic but they talked a lot about the project with each other. This surprised me because it showed further how focused they were and really wanted to get their mazes finished and done well

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I did not hear the 1st graders ask many questions at all. Not to the teachers or us, I don't know if this meant that they weren't struggling as much as I thought they would or if they just try and figure it out on their own.

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Still after our observation of the 1st graders, one of my biggest gaps in understanding is just how much they know. I don't know if they really know what they are doing and how to do it or if they are getting a lot of help and just doing random things