April 29, 2008, Tuesday
Today I introduced my students to the world of Prepositions! Well, of course they have been familiar with prepositions since elementary so I was expecting that they’d be able to do a warm-up worksheet on identifying prepositions. The warm-up activity was for them to solve a “mystery question” by identifying in each of the given 10 numbers the preposition. Once done, they are going to match the letters of each number being asked of them to solve the mystery question. The question was: On June 16, 1963, Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman to accomplish this feat. What did she do? Most of them got the answer right, which was: travel in space. But for those who didn’t get it right I went over with them some of the common prepositions by putting up an overhead of what prepositions is all about and what they are commonly used for.
After the warm-up, we moved on with Chapter 9 of The Giver. This time, I told them that they are going to be responsible in highlighting the important details of the chapter rather than me telling them which sentences or words needed to be highlighted. The main topic for Chapter 9 was about Jonas’ 8 rules that was asked of him to follow every single day throughout his assignment, which we learned from the previous chapter that he was selected as the Receive of memory. We stopped on page 68 and briefly discussed about what we have just read. We ended English class this way and they are expected to remember where we left off.
For Math class, I was the back-up of Maria B. and today they discussed about vertices. However, since one of our student’s IEP is focused on getting familiarized with everyday Math skills, he was asked to do something else. This particular student also needs a scribe, so every time I am the back-up I always try to help him write things that the class is expected to do. Today, his task is to calculate how many hours he spends on a job, as part of his worksheet. He was able to identify the accumulate time in each week from the problem but asked me to write down the answer for him.
He solved the problem very well although at times he wanted to use the calculator to sum up the answer but I discouraged him. At the end of the class, he was proud of his accomplishment and I was very happy to see him feeling happy that he did something rewarding today!
For Science class, we discussed about the parts of a suspension bridge and reviewed about the two kinds of load that a bridge can hold. They remembered what we discussed two weeks ago and were cooperative for most of the time.
The day ended very well 
no complaints.
