Ms. Parker’s afternoon Pre-Kindergarten class consisted of 15 students (9 boys and 6 girls). These students were seen to enter the classroom in a much more energetic and cheerful manner as compared to the morning Pre-K class previously observed. As they entered, they were asked to hand-in homework and any notes from their parents to the teacher. The students were a little talkative, but still attentive and ready to learn.
2. Describe the purposes of the activity/lesson taught: In the first hour, the students went through their daily warm-up routine activities as a large group. These activities included calendar, weather, shapes, alphabet recognition, memory games and colors. The main activity of this hour was a worksheet in which the students were instructed to color the cowboy hats according to the labeled colors. The purpose of this activity was to mainly enable students to recognize the different colors and be able to read the names of the colors as well. The cowboy hats were used on the worksheet since the students were still studying about Texas.
3. Describe the classroom setting.
For the warm-up activities (Circle time), the students sat on a large rug which had each student’s name labeled. There were two names on each spot, since each spot …show more content…
They were politely reminded that they need to listen carefully and let the teacher finish talking otherwise they will miss out important information and will end up making mistakes. One of the students rushed through the activity and did not color the cowboy hats too well. Ms. Parker quietly took him to her desk and explained to him that this kind of coloring does not look like a 5-year old boy coloring. She gave him another sheet and encouraged him to do a better job on this one. Other than this, I did not see any other problem behaviors in this