https://padlet.com/celi_0485/uc6la6mt1fm7 Sala 4 y 5 - Jardín de Infantes Nº41 Piuqueyen- Río Negro en-us 2018-10-20 18:22:22 UTC 2026-03-18 01:25:26 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Beartoy.png celi_0485 https://padlet.com/celi_0485/uc6la6mt1fm7/wish/295106849 This course is called Sala Rosa, the children have between four and five years old, because this is an integrated classroom. 
There are 19 kids, 13 girls and 6 boys, one of them is an integrate student.
Besides the course teacher Evangelina, the group has a preceptor called Valeria which plays the role as caregiver to support a student with special needs.
This group of children have never  had English lesson, so this will be their first experience, however from the first moment they showed anxiety and interest to learn English. 

]]> 2018-10-20 18:52:56 UTC https://padlet.com/celi_0485/uc6la6mt1fm7/wish/295106849 celi_0485 https://padlet.com/celi_0485/uc6la6mt1fm7/wish/295108423 Her name is Evangelina Gerónimo, children called her "Seño Eva" From the beginning she received me friendly, she is very kind and offers me her help. ]]> 2018-10-20 19:09:03 UTC https://padlet.com/celi_0485/uc6la6mt1fm7/wish/295108423 celi_0485 https://padlet.com/celi_0485/uc6la6mt1fm7/wish/295108895 I will doing the practicum in a public kindergarten, where English is not a subject included in the Educational policies. The school is called Jardín de Infantes Nº41 Piuqueyen, and is placed in Sierra Grande, Río Negro. 

]]> 2018-10-20 19:15:08 UTC https://padlet.com/celi_0485/uc6la6mt1fm7/wish/295108895 celi_0485 https://padlet.com/celi_0485/uc6la6mt1fm7/wish/295253616 1. What teaching strategies did you use? Which ones were effective? Why / why not?
2. How did the students react to your teaching, to the activities and the materials? How did
they react to the lesson?
3. What aspects of the lesson do you consider successful?
 4. What aspects of the lesson require change / improvement? 5. What do you find useful of this lesson that will help you plan the next one?
6. Choose a moment that was important for you during the lesson. Describe it and say why it was important.
7. Choose a moment that was important for the students during the lesson. Describe it and say why it was important.
8. Describe this lesson in terms of a metaphor. 
9. Choose a quotation that represents an event, knowledge, insight in this lesson. 10. Include a photo of a moment in the lesson, or a task students did, a picture from the board or any other lesson component you would like to share, and describe it. 
11. Choose an audio / video segment from the lesson, and reflect on what is viewed or heard. ]]> 2018-10-22 00:12:18 UTC https://padlet.com/celi_0485/uc6la6mt1fm7/wish/295253616 celi_0485 https://padlet.com/celi_0485/uc6la6mt1fm7/wish/295437993 When I arrived to the classroom I have a warm welcome from children, some of them run near the door and they hugged me and called me "the new teacher". The course teacher have told them about me, so they asked a few times: when she will teach us English? they are excited to learn English. 
To this lesson the teacher plans to preparing jelly, as they have worked with measurements and quantities. To make sure about the pieces, they count how many children they are and the teacher names the pieces of every packet of jelly. Then students realize they need two packets of jelly. After this, the teacher read aloud the instructions to prepare the jelly, to the preparation time children count aloud the numbers of cups of water they need in total for two jelly packet. 
In the next step the teacher ask children to pay attention on the colour, smells and consistency of jelly, finally each student help the teacher serving their own pieces. To finish the lesson they rewrite on the board, with the teacher help, the measurements they need to prepare the jelly.
I add a photo of the board. ]]> 2018-10-22 13:31:12 UTC https://padlet.com/celi_0485/uc6la6mt1fm7/wish/295437993 celi_0485 https://padlet.com/celi_0485/uc6la6mt1fm7/wish/295553535 Before the beginning of the lesson the teacher spend time on the SUM room where children play with balls and run, due to children were very excited and they did not pay attention to her. After a few minutes, they came back to the classroom and start the lesson. As they will visit the police station the following day, the teacher and children revisited behaviourism rules. When the teacher ask about some of the rule the children answer about it, they know very well all the rules. However in a moment they were spoken all at the same time, so the teacher sang a song to stop talking and pay attention on what she say. I found this as an useful tool because help to manage and engage the group with the activity also promote children good behaviour taking turn to speak.
An important moment was when children were waiting for their mate, who is a child with  autism spectrum. Every lesson they used to waiting him, when he arrived to the classroom all sing him a song, and then one of them receive him saying: Hi Dony I´m... (student´s name), next give him a hug. This day, Dony sang the song too and he was very happy. As a result of done this activity all and every day, the student gained confidence with some of his mates, and a big change is noticeable. At the beginning of the year Dony did not allow their mates touch and go near him, but at this time of the year the child allow some mates touch him, hugged him and play near him. 
That moment was important to me and represent a really enjoyable moment.]]> 2018-10-22 16:28:35 UTC https://padlet.com/celi_0485/uc6la6mt1fm7/wish/295553535 celi_0485 https://padlet.com/celi_0485/uc6la6mt1fm7/wish/296663613 In the last observation day the teacher proposed an activity to remember their visit to the police station. As they want to know who is the beach caretaker, they visited the gendarmerie and police station to ask questions about their roles. 
At first the teacher put a poster in the board, she gave children some phrases written which children had to paste on the poster. The teacher asked them about the comments written on the pieces of paper, while they were pasting on the poster. That comments correspond to stories that children have told the teacher about what they know of robberies and questions they wanted to ask to police man. But the children did not pay attention at all, just a few of them participated with the activity. 
On my opinion, this activity require a change, for example in order to engage children with the activity the teacher could use pictures so children would relate them with the stories and the questions. Besides because children do not read, so they could not relate or infer what is about each piece of paper.
To conclude the activity the teacher put another poster on the board where children had to paste the photos took during the visit to the police station, children retold this situation naming who is on the photo and what she/he were doing. ]]> 2018-10-24 19:43:57 UTC https://padlet.com/celi_0485/uc6la6mt1fm7/wish/296663613 celi_0485 https://padlet.com/celi_0485/uc6la6mt1fm7/wish/296718607 I felt very comfortable and happy that class! When I came in the classroom children said: "the new teacher hello" and hugged me. The course teacher has explained children what they had to do in the activity and told them that I would help her to work. That day young learners did the cover page to their work folder. So the teacher divided the group and I worked with some children cutting and giving paper mask while they design the cover, that moment was wonderful because I could interact and talked with them. Afterwards I helped giving them painting due to they had to paint the cover splashed out with a sponge, also I gave students some little instructions like"you must painting the hole page". 

]]> 2018-10-24 23:33:44 UTC https://padlet.com/celi_0485/uc6la6mt1fm7/wish/296718607 celi_0485 https://padlet.com/celi_0485/uc6la6mt1fm7/wish/297596643
Today the group learnt how to prepare pancakes, to do the activity the teacher has invited a mother,which cooked with her son. The women and her son prepared the pancakes in front of the entire class while the other children write on a piece of paper the ingredients and draw the step´s recipe. to encourage copy the name of each ingredients the teacher wrote them on the board. 
This was an activity that the hole class enjoy because who prepares the pancakes was Dony, the boy with Autism, so his mates were exciting and amazed when them realize that Dony can cook. While the boy and his mother were cooking they sang a song, that becomes to the funniest moment. 
I consider this lesson a successful one because the boy really enjoyed cooking, I can see him motivated and happy, also their mates were closed with him without he felt uncomfortable. 
My role this day was encourage children to copy and draw while the boy was cooking, then I brown the two sides of the pancakes and help the teacher served pancakes to children. ]]> 2018-10-27 00:07:42 UTC https://padlet.com/celi_0485/uc6la6mt1fm7/wish/297596643 celi_0485 https://padlet.com/celi_0485/uc6la6mt1fm7/wish/307582831 On my first lesson we worked with feeling vocabulary, this allowed me to know if children felt confident to express how they feel. At first I asked them how they feel, and told them how to say that in English. Then we read story about feelings, they also showed me how they express emotions with the face. When we revisit the vocabulary, they realised that a girl was sad, taking into account what her face showed. So they told me with some words in English and others in Spanish: "Alma esta sad" At that moment I asked them " How do you know that?" They answered: "Tiene sad face" 
I think that was an important moment for the student because they could look to their mate, and recognised the way she felt. 
I chose a quotation that describes our role as a teacher, in fact as adults, about deal with children emotions. 

]]> 2018-11-25 23:28:28 UTC https://padlet.com/celi_0485/uc6la6mt1fm7/wish/307582831 celi_0485 https://padlet.com/celi_0485/uc6la6mt1fm7/wish/307582855 This video shows an activity that involves draw on the stress balloon a face that express an emotions. The student were curious and motivated with the material, they only wanted to play with the balloon. On the video you can see they were engaged drawing and playing, but the end on the lesson consisted on make a big circle and all students had to show their own balloon naming the emotions they have chosen, this closure did not work, because they did not pay attention, they just played. As a retrospective reflection, I think that the activity drawing in the balloon may be the last one in order to gave children the opportunity to expend time playing with it,  ]]> 2018-11-25 23:28:41 UTC https://padlet.com/celi_0485/uc6la6mt1fm7/wish/307582855 celi_0485 https://padlet.com/celi_0485/uc6la6mt1fm7/wish/307582867 During this lesson I had some problems with the group management, that made me feel a little frustated. After the reading time the student played a game like a bingo, which consisted on drawing parts of the face in the order the student assistant took the flascards from a bag. Also they had to draw a face with a specific emotion. This activity did not result succesful because the group were distracted, they are always talkative, energetic and unfocused. I tried different strategies to gain their attention, such us stayed in silence until they realise about my silent mood, this was effective only the first time and then they continued talking. Another strategy was tell them If they did not listen to me I was sad and I want to go at home. At the same the first strategy used, this one worked just at first, then they were unfocud again. 
The activity did not result as I want. They drew face with different emotions, and in the order they wanted. Finally they would showed their mask by walking as a person with the emotions their drew, but they did not engage with this activity, they played with the masks in other way. 
At the end of my lesson, the teacher course gave me some advices about how called them to calm and gain their attention. I will apply them the next lesson. ]]> 2018-11-25 23:28:48 UTC https://padlet.com/celi_0485/uc6la6mt1fm7/wish/307582867 celi_0485 https://padlet.com/celi_0485/uc6la6mt1fm7/wish/307582878 That was my last lesson, fortunately I felt comfortable and satisfied with the lesson development. I found successful the way I could manage the group, I applied some suggestions the teacher course has gave the last class. I think that I improved and acquired new strategies about manage the group and those worked. 
Another successful aspect was how the students reacted with the lesson, they found the activities funnier and have learn the colours easily. On this lesson I had no problem with the activities development, they were engaged and played a lot. I can see how they enjoyed the simons says game and the art activity, they talked and share crayons between them, and they were in a hurry to paint the circle and finish first.

]]> 2018-11-25 23:28:54 UTC https://padlet.com/celi_0485/uc6la6mt1fm7/wish/307582878 celi_0485 https://padlet.com/celi_0485/uc6la6mt1fm7/wish/309615946 2018-11-30 01:32:41 UTC https://padlet.com/celi_0485/uc6la6mt1fm7/wish/309615946 celi_0485 https://padlet.com/celi_0485/uc6la6mt1fm7/wish/310651506 I have chosen this phrase to described the last lesson because was when they played the hole class. They were engage with the activties and they laughed aloud, run into the room and shout out the colour name during the simons says game. The classroom was a real funny mess, but in fact I felt satisfied with the development of the lesson and happpy to saw children playing and learning. ]]> 2018-12-03 20:52:49 UTC https://padlet.com/celi_0485/uc6la6mt1fm7/wish/310651506