Field Experience Day 2

July 12, 2010

On this day I complete 3 more hours of my field experience. Because summer school is almost over I had to do almost 3 hours everyday. The second day was a bit less stressful for me since I knew what to expect and what faces I was going to see.

The day started off the same as the first, Breakfast, restroom, routine morning songs with calendar days and months of the year. After those activities we moved on to the movements. The students would dance to a song chosen for the day. I got a look at the CD and it was Mickey's Favorite Dance Along songs. It had songs like the Y.M.C.A, the twist, the bunny hop, chicken dance, the swim and shout to name a few. For that day the song of choice was the Y.M.C.A. The students stood up, danced and singed along. Mrs. Flores said that the do this to practice the physical movements and instruction as well as to practice their oral instruction.

The teachers role seems very regular to as that of a Pre-K class. The only difference is that she is aware of disabilities and modifications like daily living and adaptive skills. The classroom has 2 teacher aids through out the regular school year but because it was summer there was only one. Her name was Mrs. Ruiz, she was in charge of helping Mrs. Flores with oral activities, speech delay activities, tongue position, sound annunciation and communication with others activities.

From 9:00 to 9:00 Mrs. Flores and Mrs. Ruiz were going to start working on the student individually so she asked me to read a book to the rest of the class while they worked one on one with the students. Mrs. Flores said she was thankful I was helping out so that they can do the evaluations on the students. The book I chose to read was the hungry caterpillar and since many of the students are bilingual I chose to read it in English and Spanish. The students had of course already heard this story and some would even tell me what was going to happen next. Once were were down with the book I asked them to help me dram them on the white board. They helped me by giving me things they saw in the book such as the fruit, butterfly and sun.

After reading time Mrs. Flores came back and told them that it was Activity at the desk time. She left my drawings on the board and asked the students to color their own on a white piece of paper. The students has crayons to complete this task. Some of the students really did not draw much, they just scribbled. But other really impressed me with their butterflied and caterpillars.

After all those fun activities the students were ready for restroom and snack time. Most of the students need assistance when it comes to going to the rest room, the most common one is that they need help to button their pants. Mrs. Ruiz is the one that usually helps with this. At snack time the students go to the cafeteria where they receive a brown lunch bag with a small lunch. Some students have strict diets so they have their own.