Kamealoha's Reflection

Graves Reflection Ch. 4&5

As I was reading chapter four I came across a great quote. “I think that kids need that feeling of predictability if they are going to learn.” This was said by Mr. Bangs in his story that he tells. I have learned this from experience. The children that I am working with have a new teacher for the remainder of the semester. There regular teacher went on maternity leave so now they have a sub.

I got to observe them when there regular teacher was there. She had there days planned out the same every week so that they new what was expected of them. However this new teacher does things a little different, not wrong, but just different. I noticed that since there weeks are not as planned out like they were used to the kids are a little more rowdy. I too think that children need consistency and predictability in there lives.

I think that there are some great ideas in chapter five about writing with children. Some of these I think will work really well in our writing time at Kapalama. The question in the beginning of this chapter got me to thinking. I don’t recall ever seeing my teachers write in front of us. I even find it funny that some people don’t like to be watched when they are writing. My boyfriend can’t stand when I try to read his writings when he is working on them. I on the other hand like to have people read when I am writing so that I can get there input.