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1 | Date | Hours | What I Did | Total Hours |
2 | SUMMER MENTORSHIP HOURS | |||
3 | 7/29/2014 | 3 hours | I sat down with the kids during their circle time and watched as the kids had fun and requested songs of their own. After circle time was over the teacher send them off to work on their own whether it be in the language, math, or reading section of the classroom and I walked around helping them. After that she gathered them again at the carpet and had them line up to go outside to play, then they came back inside, I helped serve their lunch and afterwards helped put them to sleep for nap time. | 3 hours |
4 | 7/30/2014 | 3 hours | I was in the front office for awhile helping answer calls and what not. Then once the director arrived I went to the classroom to help the kids with their assigments, which involved naming their continents, planets,etc. After the teacher had called them to gather around the carpet before going outside. Riley, a child, was complaining about her hair so I braided her hair and then pushed her on the swings so that she could "fly." As the day before, I helped serve their lunch and then put them down for their nap. | 6 hours |
5 | 7/31/2014 | 3 hours | Today I was cutting out some things for a teacher in another classroom, while observing circle time. As usual I helped the kids with their assignments and checked their work. When we went outside I watched the kids to make sure they were playing fair and when time was up we lined them up to go back inside. After they finished eating I cleaned up their tables and helped wash their hands. As usual we put them down for their nap but the kids were unusually hyper today so it took a little longer than usual, tiring everyone out. | 9 hours |
6 | 8/1/2014 | 3 hours | On fridays the kids have water play, which is just connecting a hose to a sprinkler type thing so that they can run around and get wet. So to help out the teacher she asked me to run circle time while she got the kids changed into their swimsuits. To say I was nervous is an understatement, so I had the kids sing some of their regular songs: twinkle twinkle little star, row your boat, etc., and do some stretches.After that they went outside to play and when they came back I helped change them and then had them sit down for lunch. After lunch the teacher laid out their sleeping mats and they had their nap. | 12 hours |
7 | MENTORSHIP HOURS | |||
8 | 9/5/2014 | 1 hour | Today I came in for a quick introduction on what I will be doing for the year because unlike my time during summer mentorship, the kids will actually be doing academically centered stuff. So the director, my mentor and I talked about helping the kids if they need help and just helping out in general. | 1 hour |
9 | 9/8/2014 | 2 hours | So today was the offical start to my mentorship! I had too much fun I recognized some of my kids from over the summer and some new ones. I didn't really do much today because Ms.Chami was doing her thing while I sat in the back cutting paper and running little errands for her. | 3 hours |
10 | 9/15/2014 | 2 hours | It has been a whole week since I last saw my kids and I really did miss them. They were working on math: addition, subrtaction, counting so I got to help out a little more since I have mastered those skills. Ms.Mary, Ms.Chami's student teacher, had an activity with the kids where they got to slove problems up at the board. | 5 hours |
11 | 10/13/2014 | 2 hours | It's been AGES since I last went to membership, what with all the first dance planning and what not. The kids have since moved on to focus more on reading and writing. Ms.Chami has this little area where its full of books for the kids to see and try to read. I didn't do too much today so I just sat with Riley, one of my kids, and helped her on some of her sentences. | 7 hours |
12 | 11/17/2014 | 2 hours | So I realized it's really hard for me to get to mentorship since I don't always have a ride but anywho, today Ms.Chami had the kids work on some work did didn't finish on friday so I just helped those who needed it and just watched for the most part, not too exciting. | 9 hours |
13 | 12/15/2014 | 2 hours | Since it's almost christmas and break is almost here, Ms.Chami had the kids make some ornaments, they had just come in from recess so they a little more than reluctant to sit and work. By the end of my stay the finished their little snowman oraments and I placed them out so that the glue could dry. | 11 hours |
14 | 1/12/2015 | 4 hours | The new year has finally begun which is very exciting for me but not so much the kids. Today Ms. Chami went around asking the kids what they wanted to do this year since everyone was finally back from the holidays, some kids were out longer, anywho they were not excited to know that they had to go to school all year...again. Afterwards I just sat in the back and helped out when needed. | 15 hours |
15 | 1/19/2015 | 4 hours | Today I just helped out Ms.Mary put together some of the kids' work because Ms.Chami was doing some reading assignments with the kids. After we finished putting together the "packets" I graded some worksheets. | 19 hous |
16 | 1/26/2015 | 4 hours | Ms.Chami was absent today so Ms.Mary and I had to hold own the fort and it was pretty crazy. The kids ate some cupcakes because it was Sebastian's birthday so they were all hyped up on sugar. Once they were somewhat settled though I helped them with some vocab. worksheets and some sentence structure ones. | 23 hours |
17 | 1/30/2015 | 4 Hours | Since today was the last friday of the new year Ms.Chami had the kids pic their favorite movie of the new year and after they came in from recess she put (FROZEN no suprise there) into the DVD player and she had me pop popcorn in the office and then hand it out to the kids. After the movie she had the kids do some sentence structure worksheets about FROZEN which she also had me print out while the kids had been watching the movie. | 27 hours |
18 | 2/2/2015 | 4 Hours | Since today was the first monday of the month Ms. Chami had the kids write down goals for what they wanted to accomplish/work on this month. After she had them do a very quick addition and subraction test, which I graded after they had all finished. I then had to go to the "baby" room because one of the teachers were short a person so I stepped in and I stayed with the little ones till the end of my time there. The little ones mostly just ran around the room played with the little activities at certain areas and I just had to make sure no one started a "mine" fight. | 31 hours |
19 | 2/6/2015 | 4 Hours | When I came in today the kids had just recently come back from recess and so after we got them to all settle down by singing the work song, Ms. Chami did a mini review lesson of addition and subtraction while I sat in the back with Ms.Mary and glued down some work the kids had done on wednesday. After the mini review lesson the kids had a small quiz and I left shortly after to help out in the office with pick-up. | 35 hours |
20 | 2/9/2015 | 4 Hours | When the kids came in today Ms.Mary had a vocab. game set up to work on the kids' sentence structure. She would toss them a ball and if one of them caught it they had to come up and pair the correct word with the correct sentence. While Ms.Mary di that I sat with Ms.Chami and helped her file some of the kids' work into seperate folders which took up most if not all of my time there. | 39 hours |
21 | 2/13/2015 | 3 Hours | Today Ms.Mary had the kids work on some math basics while I went around helping them fill out their worksheets, and maybe slip an answer here and there. Afterwards Ms.Mary had them glue together some heart artwork since tomorrow will be Valentine's day, I'm kind of sad I will miss out on the Valentine Card pass out. | 42 hours |
22 | 2/16/2015 | 4 Hours | Today I sat in the back watching Ms.Chami teach about the pre-fixes and how they are used. Afterwards I went around the classroom and helped out with filling out some worksheets that she had passed out. | 46 hours |
23 | 2/20/2015 | 3 Hours | I went for a smaller amount of time today because my dad's birthday is today! Anywho I came in and instead of going to the classroom I had to go to the office and sort out some files for the Director and then I helped Ms.Estela hand out some snacks to the kids in the "baby room" and then for the last hour I went to Ms. Chami's classroom and just observed in the back. | 49 hours |
24 | 2/23/2015 | 4 Hours | Unfortunately today was also a bit uneventful, the kids were having a blast though. After they had come in from recess I sat in the back while they settled and then I helped hand out some cakepops since it was Issac's birthday. Once they had come down from the sugar rush Ms.Chami had them pull out their favorite books and read a couple, which honestly seemed to drone on and on. For the last couple of minutes I went to the office to make some copies of a worksheet they would have to do the following day. | 53 hours |
25 | 2/27/2015 | 4 Hours | Today was Friday Funday! The kids got to do a little dance session outside and jam to kidz bop. And then when thwey came in all tired they got to watch the Lego Movie while I helped Ms.Mary fix their about me books. | 57 hours |
26 | 3/2/2015 | 3 Hours | Today I sat in the back watching Ms.Chami teach new spelling words and their definitions. Afterwards the kids had to make at least 10 sentences with the new words they learned and it took forever! It was really fun watching them though. When they finished they got to pick a quiet activity to do while the rest finished up. | 60 hours |
27 | 3/6/2015 | 4 Hours | So today Ms.Chami had me help Ms.Mary cut out some stuff for the kids' activity next week which I may or may not be there for. I really can't see the whole picture but according to Ms.Mary it will look beautiful! It's something along the lines of a spring day craft. | 64 hours |
28 | 3/20/2015 | 4 Hours | Today was really tiring the kids had an extended recess which I have yet to be witness of and I can honestly say I was SO tired. Kids have way too much energy for me when they finally came in they just did some quick addition worksheets and then got to hang around the room and work with the different sections of the room. | 68 hours |
29 | 3/23/2015 | 4 Hours | Today was a slow day, and incidently also my last day since the kids are going on break. I didn't have much to do since Ms. Chami was having them take end of the month tests which was just basic two-digit addition and subtraction and some spelling.Afterwards I graded them and I was pretty proud of their results. | 72 hours |
30 | INDEPENDENT COMPONENT 1 HOURS | |||
31 | 10/8/2014 | 2 hours | Today was the start of my independent component and compared to my mentorship it was slightly lonely since I would just sit ant the back and just observe my mentor. However, she said that she will start giving me little assignments to do! | 2 hours |
32 | 10/22/2014 | 2 hours | So today Ms.Chami had me help Ms.Mary cut out some stuff for the kids' activity tomorrow morning, which I hope I could be there for. The kids are going to make some Halloween art. | 4 hours |
33 | 11/12/2014 | 2 hours | I got to my mentorship late because I had to help out at the blood drive today and I was a little tired since I donated for the first time but I still had fun. Ms. Chami asked me to grade some spelling tests that the kids took the day before, after I just observed and made some copies. | 6 hours |
34 | 11/19/2014 | 2 hours | When I did my first lesson I said I would do a little "memory" book with the kids however, I haven't gotten the chance to do so but Ms. Chami told me today to start working on possible pages and activities which I'm really excited about. Today I looked through work the kids have done and might add that into the book. | 8 hours |
35 | 12/10/2014 | 2 hours | Its almost Chistmas and Ms.Chami was talking about making ornaments for the kids sometime this or next week so I will be able to help them put it together. Today Ms.Chami had the kids do another spelling test and since I was there I graded them. Once I was done I helped Ms.Mary make some copies for tomorrow's lesson. | 10 hours |
36 | 1/14/2015 | 4 hours | Today I sat in the back watching Ms.Chami teach about the pre-fixes and how they are used. Afterwards I went around the classroom and helped out with filling out some worksheets that she had passed out. | 14 hours |
37 | 1/16/2015 | 4 hours | Since today was friday the kids got to have some "fun" learning. Ms.Mary had them play this really interesting spelling game indoors. She had this like bouncy ball and she would throw it to someone and they had to come up to the board and with some magnetic letter spell out words that Ms.Mary would say. After I went to the office to make some copies for Monday. | 18 hours |
38 | 1/23/2015 | 4 hours | Since I didn't get to go on wednesday because of movie night I had lots of grading to do. So I sat in the back, in my corner by the phone and graded. I've so far have noticed that the kids' penmanship has gotten a lot better, maybe it has something to do with all those motor activites Ms.Chami has them do. | 22 hours |
39 | 1/28/2015 | 4 hours | Today was a slow day, which is a major shocker because I never get bored at mentorship with all the crazy antics my kids pull. I didn't have much to do since Ms. Chami was having them take end of the month tests which was just basic two-digit addition and subtraction and some spelling.Afterwards I graded them and I was pretty proud of their results. | 26 hours |
40 | 1/30/2015 | 5 hours | FRIDAY! Today the kids had a series of tasks they had to complete to see what they have learned so there was coloring involved, gluing, cutting,etc.I give major props to Ms. Mary and Ms.Chami for coming up with such fun and stimulating activities. They even used one of my drawing activities but they modified it to where it was a sort of connect the dots picture. | 31 hours |
41 | 2/4/2015 | 4 hours | Today was crazy! I had to go buy muffins for tomorrow so I was rushing everywhere. I stayed later than I'm used to for a school day but I enjoyed it nonetheless. Today I was grading their normal begining of the month math and spelling quizzes while I talked to Ms.Mary about possible people I could interview for my third interview. | 35 hours |
42 | INDEPENENT COMPONENT 2 HOURS | |||
43 | 3/20/2015 | 35 Minutes | Today Ingrid and I met just to talk about what we will be having on the blog. Who will post when, what we'll post about, and when we will start posting. We want to able to have an account where if teachers needed some information they'd have a place to start. | 35 Minutes |
44 | 3/29/2015 | 1 Hour 45 Minutes | Today Ingrid and I chose to host our blog on Blogger and by transitioning to the Plus account, we can easily access YouTube to upload activity/craft tutorials. The email (alexisandingrid15) is what we plan to use for future tasks such as generating gdocs or signing up to other sites that'll allow us to enrich out IC 2. | 2 Hours 20 Minutes |
45 | 4/4/2015 | 2 Hours 30 Minutes | Ingrid and I created an account on Pinterest, that we linked to our blog. We spent some time following boards, such as education and art, and also followed our our personal accounts. Once the Pinterest was created, Ingrid made boards tilted: Reading Fun, Classroom Organization, Supplies, and Art. As we progress throughout the month we will be adding boards as we need. | 4 Hours 50 Minutes |
46 | 4/6/2015 | 45 Minutes | Today Ingrid planned on posting an entry on our blog about Pinterest so before she posted it I went through it and made sure there were no grammar issues, or what have you. | 5 Hours 35 Minutes |
47 | 4/7/2015 | 2 Hours 30 Minutes | Today was my turn to post and I had no clue what to blog about so I decided to look for research articles on early childhood education but when that wasn't working I went through my answers and I wanted to know more about he effects of social-emotional development. So I spent like an hour looking for a credible source and when I found one I read through it and decided my first post would be about social-emotional development. | 8 Hours 5 Minutes |
48 | 4/8/2015 | 1 Hour 15 Minutes | Today we spent about an hour planning what we wanted to do for the blog what was working for us and our schedules. Since we are on spring break we had more pinterest pinning time so I did plenty of that. | 9 Hours 20 Minutes |
49 | 4/9/2015 | 2 Hours 10 Minutes | So as May is fast approaching which means final lessons and activities. I was on pinterest looking for something to talk about in my post for the day and I came across this pin that had a couple activities for kids that focus on practicing fine motor skills and I thought I would look further into it. After looking through the various activities I found one about marshmallow sculptures which I found interesting because at my mentorship the kids have a lot of hands on experience so I thught this was the perfect activity. I then posted about it on our blog. | 11 Hours 30 Minutes |
50 | 4/11/2015 | 4 Hours 5 Minutes | So our blog isn't up to standards and so Ingrid decided to deck it out. And it was lots of painstaking work but she managed to pick out our icon for the Alexis and Ingrid show. We had like three choices and we ended up using two of them one for our pinterest avatar/icon thing and the other one for our gmail one. | 15 Hours 5 Minutes |
51 | 4/14/2015 | 2 Hours 10 Minutes | Today we spent some time pinning and talking about our blog. We started to talk briefly about what we wanted our activity for our blog to be. Since Easter already passed and we couldn't meet then we spent time, lots of time, going through pinterest at various activities and ideas. | 17 Hours 15 Minutes |
52 | 4/15/2015 | 30 Minutes | Since today was a slow wednesday for me I logged onto Pinterest and I just looked through at some pins to help me think about my next blog post idea. I also found some cool montessori activities. | 17 Hours 45 Minutes |
53 | 4/16/2015 | 3 Hours 15 Minutes | At school we met and discussed blog ideas and what we wanted to do for the activity since we are in the middlle of april! We met for like a good hour and some minutes and later on in the day I was looking up information for my next blog post for the day. I found this article, that a former teacher told me about, that discussed the transformation of kindergarten and since my essential question deals with kindergarten I not only found it relevant but I also found some of the thoughts on the topic interesting. I personally don't remember much from kindergarten but from what I saw at my mentorship it was somewhat true but then again they were talking about traditional teaching. | 21 Hours |
54 | 4/17/2015 | 30 Minutes | I was pretty tired today for some reason so I decided to log onto our pinterest and see what I could discover and find about self-regulation activities. I spent half an hour scrolling through and I found a couple of good pins about how to help children aquire self-regulation. | 21 Hours 30 Minutes |
55 | 4/18/2015 | 45 Minutes | I woke up this morning and felt in a very Pinteresty mood so I logged on while my brothers were busy playing some video game and found a couple pins dealing with fine motor activities. | 22 Hours 15 Minutes |
56 | 4/19/2015 | 1 Hour | Today Ingrid and I spent some time planning, via phone. We talked about our activity which we really need to do and then we remembered EARTH DAY. I used to love going out in the garden with my mom and cutting branches and what not. So we decided to make some sort of earth day craft for our activity. | 23 Hours 15 Minutes |
57 | 4/20/2015 | 1 Hour 30 Minutes | I met with Ingrid and we made our earth day craft unfortunately we had technical difficulties but we made our icecream earth mason jars and they were YUMMY! It was a quick and easy activity and we had fun. | 24 Hours 45 Minutes |
58 | 4/21/2015 | 2 Hours 10 Minutes | Today I had to search for a new blog post idea and I went with looking for information for my second answer with is, executive function skills(self-regulation). It was through a pin I found that I discovered a link that led me to an article all about self-regulation. It talked about why it was essential that kids had these skills and how they could work on them. | 26 Hours 55 Minutes |
59 | 4/22/2015 | 1 Hour | Since I would be busy and tired tomorrow when I get home because I'll be at the blood drive all day I decided to do some research for my blog post for tomorrow. I haven't found anything super interesting but I did find this one article on fine motor skills so I'll explore it more tomorrow. | 27 Hours 55 Minutes |
60 | 4/23/2015 | 2 Hours 50 Minutes | When I got home today I immediately logged on to work on my post. As I mentioned yesterday I found an article on fine motor skills and I decided it was perfect to talk about since I think it will end up being my best answer and my final lesson activity will be on motor skills. So after I finished writing it and waited for Ingrid to go over it I decided to do some pinning for a couple of minutes...which turned out to be half an hour. | 30 Hours 45 Minutes |
61 | 4/24/2015 | 1 Hour | So since our independent component 2 is coimg to a close I went on our blog and looked for the blog post where I talked about the Marshmallow sculptures because today during house it got approved by Mrs. LaRussa! Yay! So I wanted to know more about what exactly I would need for the people during my lesson and I'm really looking foward to having them build their own sculptures which works on their fine motor skills. | 31 Hours 45 Minutes |