Classroom Envirorment..2nd observation

CLASSROOM ENVIRONMENT

Today, 22.11.2018, I attend to Zkola Podstawowa iepubliczna im. Wiktorii Wiedenskiej Fundacji Educayjnej Varsovia in Kolegiacka 1str, Wilanow.

I started my observation lessons with a professional teacher, who conduct six English lessons a week to 3rd-grade students in the school.

I can say that I had gained a big and great experience today having an opportunity to observe three classes 11, 13, and 7 students each.

what people eat around the world 

The main aims of the lessons were improving reading strategies, looking for information among paragraphs to extract it, learning about the world by understand what people eat around the world, And understanding the new words which were in the text. While some of randomly chosen students were reading the paragraphs, teacher was fixing pronunciation error, explaining some meaning of new words for students.

The topics of the lessons were: What I eat, my favorite birthday food, write and draw.

In what I eat topic students had to read paragraphs about three people living in different places in the world and extract information what he or she eats for dinner, and then they had to write it down in their coursebook exercises.

In my favorite birthday food: the students had to write down a full paragraph, and teacher checked it.

Write and draw: students had to write and draw their favorite dishes in the workbook, Teacher drew on the board to help students understand new words, and used the internet to show them some pictures of the food that they didn't know.

staying with course book and exercises used for the students, I would like to mention that besides the course book that the school use for 3rd class students" our world"  by JoAnn(jodi) and Joan Kang Shin; teacher also use "Storyfun " course book by Karen Saxby and " home fun booklet" by for the revised Cambridge English: young learners (yle), Jane Ritter as other materials to boots and strengthens kids language. 

Far away from books and materials, to my favorite part of this blog, classroom seat arrangements and what's in the classroom. 

Seating arrangments for two classes 

 This picture shows how seat arrangements looks like in some of the classes I attended today.

students posters 

 rooms were very big and clean, rooms have posters and pictures, each room has cabinets for pupils on the right back side of the room, the teacher has her own disk, lighting is perfect in the class, each room equipped with computer and good size screen, carpet on the back of the room, very Ideal environment for studying in groups or in pairs because it is easy to change the seats positions, above all that, the special atmosphere that the teacher created to encourage the students and get their attention in the class.

 I would like to end this blog with two nice things that happened during my observation, the first one is when pupils went noisy in one class, I liked the way the teacher behaved to control the class when she asked them to stand up and start doing physical exercises energize them and then used her voice to calm them down again and let them sit down at their seats calmly and concentrate on their subject.

comfortably work in small groups.

The second interesting thing happened when I introduced myself to pupils in one class, I wrote their names in Arabic on the board and the pupils were very excited, each student tried to copy his name in his coursebook :).

Thank you for taking the time to read my blog.