1. On Monday, students were beginning new books for the week. Each of the three reading groups had a different book: Twas the Night Before Thanksgiving, Alexander Who Used to be Rich last Sunday, and If You Bring a Mouse to School. Mrs. Whisnant read the book with each group and then had all students make a poster about their favorite parts of the book along with captions underneath explaining. They also had silent sustained reading (SSR) and accelerated reading tests during SSR.
2. On Monday, I helped a girl echo read her book, If you Bring a Mouse to School. I would read a page and then she would read it after me. After reading the whole book, she would tell me sentences that I wrote down, then she practiced reading them.
3. I’ve noticed that Mrs. Whisnant always tries to integrate reading into the math lessons and math into the reading lessons whenever possible.
4. When helping this week, I found it hard to understand why the girl I was helping was actually in 2nd grade. She got very frustrated with easy reading passages and is always pulled out of the classroom.
