Date: March 25th, 2015
Time: 9:00-9:45
Place: Rousseau Elementary
Classroom: ELL with Terri
This one will be lengthy. As I will try to record everything i did and then followed with my reflection.
Arrived before school was opened, Terri went through what Carin and I needed to do with the 4 kids. Two girls and Two boys. One Chinese boy came from China in January, so he had his special list to do. Terri planned to share the folders in a way later.
So Carin and I went to the media center, waiting to the kids. Later, one girl and one boy came. Carin and i planned to begin when they all came, so we asked the boy to finish his cover while explaining to the girl what we were going to do with her research project. The later, the other boy and girl showed up. So We took one of the girl's cover and picture out and let all the others watch at first. The girl took two pictures of her own cover and poem and then went to the Flickr Creative Commons to search for more pictures about her animal's food, habitat and fun facts. Carin reminded that we may not have enough time to do one by one. So i went to have another girl and helped her project. So we first got the four kiddos all set of their pictures. Then we began the recording. The first girl read hers and all the other children watched. Carin held the Ipad and turned the page for her. In the mid of her reading, i took a boy and went to another table for recording.
We finished the recording in time. Collected their folders, thanked the kids and Terri and left.
Later Carin sent men an email, telling me that one of the boys' recording did not work. It kept only the first page of his voice.
Reflections:
Time Management:
45 minutes with 4 kids and two of us helpers went pretty fast. We had to do them at the same time. So possibly because we are new users of the app, but Carin asked me to imagine how could we do with a full class of kids. My answer would be to do with 1/3 or 1/2 earlier, train them and ask them to help.
App Challenge:
Pretty nice easy control app. Well, i need to pay more attention to the point of turning to a new picture. I don't think that Flickr Creative Commons offered much choice of pictures. And indeed, this step took a lot of time. Children would like to have a best picture and it took them some time to decide, maybe the time a little bit too long. So we had to nudge them to go ahead.
As time was limited, i began recording when Carin took another one. Though i chose a faraway table, the voice of the girl could still be heard distantly in the boy's recording. So where to record is another challenge. And helpers did need to know what the paper or research is all about so you could help turn the pages at the right time.
ELL learners
The children were excited. They tried to help and learn. They were engaged but when Carin and i each attended to one child, the left ones had nothing to do. So it is a concern for class management.
One thing for reading aloud their book. i think all the other three kids were feeling good about the reading aloud part, except the Chinese boy. He came to Lincoln in January, and he's a 3rd grader back in China, as i asked him. No time to know more yet. So he began to whine when i prepared for his recording. And when he began, i knew why. Although his paper looked great, neat and spellings all correct, there are many of them he could not read. I felt sorry about it. So i had to murmur some of the words to him or use my fingers to help him skipping words so that he could keep on reading. If we could ask him to read his paper instead of doing recording directly, it maybe easier for him. So for this part, i suppose that we need to take the speaking part of ELL learners into consideration.
I enjoyed the 45 minutes. I think that the children did most of the time. I am not sure the recording thing, since it seemed to arouse different feelings, one girl told me that she was excited. Well, some showed concern.
I would love to see what's going on next but i could not make it for Tomorrow as Thursday is a school day for me too.
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