WOW! It's already the end of week two! I've been so busy! This week was great! For two of the days, I had the opportunity to lead a small group. I really enjoyed that. I have also been working one-on-one with the students on the computers. Some of them are great at using the mouse and then others really struggle. They like to lift the mouse up instead of sliding it around. The students have been playing on starfall.com It's a pretty good website for playing around with letters.
Yesterday, one of the students bit another students. He had to stay on the wall while the other students played during gym time. He was crying the whole time. I know that students should not bite and they need to learn that biting is not the right thing to do but it still made me feel bad to see him crying. Once we left the gym, I asked the teacher if I could talk to him about it. I got down to his level (so I wasn't towering over him) I told him to look in my eyes and listen to my words. Then I told him that he had to stay on the wall because he bit a friend and that is not what we use our teeth for. He told me that his friend had shoved him. I told him that when our friends push us we need to use our words and say "Please don't push me." I think that talking with him about him helped him understand why he was in trouble more than just putting him on the wall and letting him cry did. I mean it's fine to make him sit out but we should at least explain to him why he's in trouble and what he can do next time to avoid getting in trouble. I think it worked pretty well. He even went up to his friend when we got back to the classroom and apologized.
Notable books:
One Dark Night by Hazel Hutchins
Snowballs by Lois Ehlert
Bear Snores On by Karma Wilson and Jane Chapman
*Random side rant... I just looked up One Dark Night on amazon and it's super expensive. The most expensive being $634.00 ... SERIOUSLY? WHY? That's a crazy scam!
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