May 24,2012

Today the children were focused a lot on science and reading. In my classroom the children read a book named Number The Stars a book about the Holocaust and the rough times that they have been through. The teacher read to them three chapters of this book and together each child read one page in every chapter. Throughout the chapters the teacher would tell them different vocabulary words to explain or visually describe to her. The interesting thing that I found out about this activity is that the children were able to verbally explain their responses to the teacher about the book, but they struggled with writing them out of how they interpreted the book and the plot. The little girl that I usually work with was surprisingly not "up" from her A.D.H.D and with her being settled down she could actively and constructively participate in the conversations. It was surprising through all the complaining that she normally does, on this particular day she did not and all of her answers that she replied to from the questions of the book were correct.