OBSERVATION REPORT 4:

The observation was in first grade with the teacher called Casuccio M. Florencia, the topic that the students worked was “Clothes”.

They started telling the day of the week (Monday, Tuesday, etc.…), and then the teacher asked “What is the weather like?” it´s sunny, they replied. The atmosphere of the classroom was very good, because she treated all students equally.

She drew many kinds of clothes (skirts, t-shirts, etc.), on the black and they had to pronounce the name of each clothes aloud. Then the task was to color and draw the clothes on their own hardback, she was checking with each student, the activity was very easy but many students were the forty minutes drawing because they didn’t have rules about the time of the activity, but they had rules about behavior because they were quiet, and if some student was wrong or stood up, she said please come back to your seat, please be good.

She didn´t manage time because the task was unfinished, it was the only task, and a very poor routine, she only wrote the date on the blackboard but she didn´t show them any kind of picture or something like that.

She told me that students only work with books because this is the request of the authorities and parents are happy when they work with it. They only mentioned a few words in English because they didn´t have any opportunity to speak.

I think in first grade it is a very good opportunity to work with games and activities.