Week 11

Today in class we made booklets for the students so that they could take down observations when they watch a movie later on this week about characterization. The students will be watching Scooby Doo and writing about each of the individual characters, their traits, and whether or not they think that character will solve the mystery based off of these traits. The teacher called it "sneaky learning" because the students would think that they were having a movie break before Thanksgiving, but really they're learning about literature. Later on during class, we worked with our kidwatching kid and helped them to catch up on work that they had not yet completed. They were learning about Native Americans and the different vocabulary words, and also recalling facts about what they had read. I noticed today that my kidwatching kid, although being a very competent reader, actually has a lot of difficulties recalling exact details and would often have to refer back to the texts to answer her questions. She also had to write a reflection about she thought about a sentence that the teacher had posted on the board. I wasn't sure if she couldn't read her own writing, but she had extreme difficulties reading her paragraph aloud to me when I know she is a strong reader. I guess I was just confused about what she was struggling with today, hopefully it was just sloppy handwriting.