Week 14 reflection

This week we finished up number identification (for my AR).

On Monday (Nov 30), the students played a "I have who has" game. The students were given cards which said "I have ____, who has ____". They had to read the sentence and the numbers. Everyone else had to listen carefully for their own numbers. The students really enjoyed the game. It especially helped group 3 because they had to listen for their numbers and practice identifying the ones that they were still struggling with. The participation was overall good. DE was talking, SM was not following directions or listening, and SD was also not following directions/listening.

On Tuesday (Dec 1), we worked on the numbers 0, 1, and 2. We used cheerios and talked about how many were in the students cups. First they had zero. What does zero mean? It means none. Then I placed 1 in their cups and had them look and see how many they had. Then I placed 2 in their cups. Each time they had to look and count how many that they had. I also had them draw a berry tree to show the number of berries that we talked about for the day. Participation was alright. AM was talking and DS was talking.

On Wednesday we did the same activity but with numbers 3,4, 5 and 6. DS, JR, SM, SD were all talking and not following directions. I had to take DS's cup away from her for repeatedly talking over me.

On Thursday, we completed the activity with numbers 7,8,9 and 10. Groups 1 and 3 did very well and followed directions. Group 2 did not do well at all with listening and following directions. I had to take all of their cheerio cups and throw them away. Although it sounds mean and shocking, it worked. The students started to listen. I had 8 students who were trying to take over the group by eating all of their cheerios when i said one, hitting the cups off the table, etc. This had never happened before but I felt that I did the correct thing.

On Friday the students placed I spy. Most of the students did a great job. JL was kicked out of the group for talking over me four times. He was not happy but when I allowed him to come back I did not have any more problems. The students enjoyed looking around the room at all of the different numbers.

I also completed my post assessment on numbers on Friday.