This past week was great. I had my first real subbing all day long day and it went awesome! The kids really respected me as the teacher and it went by without any problems. I also started book clubs. Some students really enjoy the silent reading time and others seem to hate it. I feel like I'm pulling teeth with a lot of them and its frustrating to me that they won't do their work. Some of the incentives I have come up with, rocking chair, managers, and pillow people seem to working wonderfully. The kids like to have rewards :) and I like that they see reading in a different spots so fun.
Something I struggled with this week was modeling my reading journals since they are leveled and are 3 different prompts. I did not want to show one on the ELMO because I was afraid they would catch on or some students would get angry that they have so much to do when other kids don't have quite as much. The first day I sort of realized that problem right before I modelled journaling and ended up just talking about questions. I thought about the problem a lot and came up with a solution. For each entry I have been doing a mini lesson beforehand that relates to the journal. Since connections is something I am focusing a lot on, I spent two days already on connections and they have not had that journal yet. On Friday, I had them write their connections to Jumanji and tomorrow when I do day 4 (connection day) I will show some student work so they know what I expect them to do.
This week I am going to work on doing more modelling of the journals in this way. I wish that I had thought of it sooner!
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