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March 6, 2009 Assessment Journal # 5 Today my teacher was absent so there was a substitute teacher teaching the first grade class. The class ran normally, with math exercises in the morning, journaling, and reading in the afternoon. Math exercises were in the format of two worksheets for the students. The students worked on adding and subtracting from numbers adding up to twenty. Most of the students understood the worksheet while others struggled with the directions more so than the assignment.

After the math worksheets were completed, additional reading aids came into the classroom to assist on the journaling and reading. Journaling was similar to the week before, only because the teacher was not here today, computers were not used for the students’ final products. The students were asked to journal about something that they wanted to write about, to read their work, have it edited by someone sitting near you, fix the mistakes, and then show an adult for approval.

For reading, the reading aids ran the lesson. One of the aids asked the students to sit on the reading carpet while she read a few written stories they wrote the day before. The day before, the students were given the assignment of writing a book about a topic they enjoy. Some students wrote about kittens while others wrote about swimming. The students loved this assignment because they were able to write about something they like. I was able to help the students find pictures of their topic online so they could incorporate it into their books. They loved this because the pictures were realistic and made their books even more personal.