My Journal- Kindergarten by https://padlet.com/mnovillohall/Bookmarks Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think en-us 2017-04-18 12:10:51 UTC 2025-10-04 05:23:15 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Manbag.png Opening my journal mnovillohall https://padlet.com/mnovillohall/Bookmarks/wish/166728773 Day One: Opening my journal, what an adventure!

]]> 2017-04-18 12:13:43 UTC https://padlet.com/mnovillohall/Bookmarks/wish/166728773 Kindergarten Observation #1 (5 years old class) mnovillohall https://padlet.com/mnovillohall/Bookmarks/wish/168851453 Day two: During my first observation in kinder I had an insight about how is to work with young learners. 
When I went in the class, the teacher introduced me and then she played a "Hello song". They sang and danced together. The class was a nice environment with many visual tools such as posters, stickers, pictures all hanged on the wall. The teacher spoke to the students mostly in English. 
They worked with colours, shapes and numbers through visual and audory stimulus. 
The work period was short beacuse there were many disruptions. Kids needed constantly go to the bathroom and they were hungry, then the teacher had to provide them a snak and so on. Music was in the background always. When they had to open their books to work with images, they needed help in finding the correct page and the teacher had to repeat several times the directions. Theere was another person who  helped the teacher in the case that any student may fell sick. 
To end the class there was a "It´s time to go home song". That is their routine. 


]]> 2017-04-28 11:55:06 UTC https://padlet.com/mnovillohall/Bookmarks/wish/168851453 Kindergarten Observation #2 mnovillohall https://padlet.com/mnovillohall/Bookmarks/wish/170025683 (5 years old class)
Day three: Today was my second day at kindergaten. Kids were a bit noisy therefore it was difficult for the teacher to work with them. 
Again, the class started with a "Hello" song. This time the teacher also played a "What is the weather like" song and another song with the days of the week. 
They did a review of shapes, colours and numbers. 
As I said before, some kids had a bad behaviour, then the teacher talked to them an put them beside to refelct on their behaviour. The "punishment" was extremly short and then they join the class again.
Kids draw the argentinian flag using some of the shapes they have learned.
They listened to a "goodbye " song at the end of the class.

]]> 2017-05-04 18:29:26 UTC https://padlet.com/mnovillohall/Bookmarks/wish/170025683 Kindergarten Practice #1 ( 5 years old class) mnovillohall https://padlet.com/mnovillohall/Bookmarks/wish/171574973 Day four: Yesterday was my first class. I realice how complex is teaching young children. I know little children has very short attention´s period of time but to me it was very difficult to mantain then engage with the class. I think I gave them too many activities and they could not handle with too much information. I worked with visual, auditive and written techniques. It was not a complete cahos. They responded well to the video and the glue and paste activity. They were supposed to create a robot with the shapes (triangles, circles, squares and rectangles)that I gave them. But it was difficult for them to preform group activities and reminded seated and quiet. In general the class teacher told me that the class was excellent but I need to improve it and think carefuly the activities I will bring them the next class. ]]> 2017-05-12 20:01:15 UTC https://padlet.com/mnovillohall/Bookmarks/wish/171574973 Kindergarten Practice #2 (5 years old class) mnovillohall https://padlet.com/mnovillohall/Bookmarks/wish/173712702 Day five: The second class was a totally different experience. I don´t know why maybe because children already knew me or because lesson plan was much more atractive to them but their behave improved a lot and we did all the activities nicely. I think one aspect of the previous lesson that required to be chnged was the amount of activities. The previous lesson I gave them too much alctivities and I think it was overwalming for them. This class I worked perfectly with the time aviable and we were much more relaxed and enjoyed the activities. 

]]> 2017-05-24 20:16:29 UTC https://padlet.com/mnovillohall/Bookmarks/wish/173712702 Kindergarten Practice #3 (5 years old class) mnovillohall https://padlet.com/mnovillohall/Bookmarks/wish/175731289 Day 5: I realized that children need constantly support and attention. They can be lost in a minute therefore at this age it is important for them to feel and see the teacher near and be confident with the teacher. Patience is needed to work with young learners. They learn in different ways and most of them have little tolerance to frustration.]]> 2017-06-08 13:37:13 UTC https://padlet.com/mnovillohall/Bookmarks/wish/175731289 Kindergarten Practice #4 (5 years old class) mnovillohall https://padlet.com/mnovillohall/Bookmarks/wish/176596817 Day six: Today was an interesting day. I realized most of the children prefer visual activities. They love watching videos but it is not so easy for them making connection between what they have watched in the video and a forward activity. This is why transition stages are so important. Today we continued working with mood (happy, sad, hungry, angry, tired etc) little by little they started to remember some concepts which make me very happy. 

It was the first time using the course book for a lesson therefore I adapted its contents to my lesson plan. It turned out well but I needed some more time, just five minutes. The class is extremely short and it is difficult to finish on time. Most of the times I managed finish all the activities but today be had a short interruption hence homework will be finished next class. 

Children´s attention period is very short therefore dynamic activities are needed. This is a quite big class and noisy so I think next class we will sing a beautiful and entertaining song. 

This is me explaining them Petal´s Family. We listened to the story and next class children will draw their favorite character. 

]]> 2017-06-15 20:01:36 UTC https://padlet.com/mnovillohall/Bookmarks/wish/176596817 Class #1 material mnovillohall https://padlet.com/mnovillohall/Bookmarks/wish/176599596 SHAPES: Triangle, square, rectangle and circle]]> 2017-06-15 20:40:49 UTC https://padlet.com/mnovillohall/Bookmarks/wish/176599596 Class #2 material mnovillohall https://padlet.com/mnovillohall/Bookmarks/wish/176599686 COLORS: Pecheras de colores]]> 2017-06-15 20:42:13 UTC https://padlet.com/mnovillohall/Bookmarks/wish/176599686 Class # 3 Material mnovillohall https://padlet.com/mnovillohall/Bookmarks/wish/176599892 THE FAMILY AND MOOD]]> 2017-06-15 20:45:20 UTC https://padlet.com/mnovillohall/Bookmarks/wish/176599892 CLASS #4 mnovillohall https://padlet.com/mnovillohall/Bookmarks/wish/176599976 PETAL´S FAMILY]]> 2017-06-15 20:47:07 UTC https://padlet.com/mnovillohall/Bookmarks/wish/176599976 Kindergarten Practice #5 (5 years old class) mnovillohall https://padlet.com/mnovillohall/Bookmarks/wish/177294830 Day seven. I gave my students the last class. It was a class full of emotions. I gave them some presents and for my surprise they had prepared a present for me too. The class was about THE BODY, children laught a lot watching me using my body to introduce new language. I had to work on their behaviour because they are a very noisy group and it takes them some time to be quiet and concentrates on the task. To end the lesson we danced The Hokey Pokey Shake song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rq--QeiPuA it was definitely the best moment. We laught a lot and all of them danced and had a good time. I am going to miss them. Wonderful experience! 

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