Reflection Paper On Victoria's Reflection

Victoria’s Reflection

Observation-

During academics on Monday 22nd, 2016 at 5 o’clock the lesson on cause and effect was given to first graders. The lesson consisted of a worksheet that had a short two paragraph story about the sun. Next to the story there was a picture of a child enjoying the outdoors. In addition, there were four questions about the story. In this lesson, there were six first graders who sat around me so that we can read the story out loud. I gave the students the worksheet and we started reading the short story. After reading the short story, we had a quick discussion and some students needed me to clarify what the word “warmth” meant. After answering their questions, and listening to what they wanted to share with me,

Also, the material was interesting to their grade level and experiences. Furthermore, the students liked to share their thoughts and personal experiences, which leads to a more intimate learning process that can benefit the students to a greater extent. In addition, the short story had some facts that can be learned by the students and the drawing and coloring part at the end fueled the students by grabbing their attention, which reinforces what had been learned. However, what I would change was the way I introduced the lesson. I simply gave them the worksheet and we read it, but what I should have done is to have a quick discussion about what we are going to read to introduce them the genre. Moreover, I noticed that the students were having a difficult time looking for the answers in the text. However, I reminded them that it’s like looking for an item from our picture puzzles that we do for fun after homework is completed. After I said that to the students, they changed their attitudes toward it being difficult to it being fun. They were able to connect the search strategies that they acquire in the picture puzzles and implement them with the word search. So, the only difference is that they are now looking for words instead of