Reflective Account
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Reflective Account
On Wednesday afternoon before the children arrived back from lunch Mrs Bell briefed me on what she wanted me to do with the class.
She wanted me to support the children with their chair project for technology. Once they had cut the wood into 3 sticks (one 10cm and two 9cm pieces) with Mrs Hallam they were to sit on my table and glue them to the base of the chair, which we made the previously the week before. Then when they had finished go to her table and finish a superhero project for literacy.
She then asked me to get the table ready for the children to work on. I covered the table in newspaper and put the glue, glue sticks and green paper triangles for the sides of the chair onto the table so I was prepared for the children to do this task.
When the children started gluing the wood they were starting to get disheartened because the glue wasn’t sticking. They were saying “I cant do it” and “ Its too hard” I reassured the children that they can do it and to remember when we were calm and patient the week before that it worked and will work this time. They agreed and carried on.
A couple of children were getting over excited and were starting to get very noisy so I asked them to be quiet and Mrs Bell asked them to use their “inside voices”. We carried on gluing but still the same children kept being noisy and disrupting the others so I told Mrs Bell who then removed them and sat them at her table. I apologised to her and the other children for the interruption and we proceeded with our work.
As the children were finishing the chairs I asked them “If they were proud of them”. They said “they were” and I replied I am too. “Well done”. Then I sent them to Mrs Bell’s table to finish their superhero literacy work.
After the children had left to go home I discussed the day’s events with Mrs Bell in particular the chair project. I said it was chaotic especially when the boys were getting noisy and had to be removed but really enjoyable.
She...
On Wednesday afternoon before the children arrived back from lunch Mrs Bell briefed me on what she wanted me to do with the class.
She wanted me to support the children with their chair project for technology. Once they had cut the wood into 3 sticks (one 10cm and two 9cm pieces) with Mrs Hallam they were to sit on my table and glue them to the base of the chair, which we made the previously the week before. Then when they had finished go to her table and finish a superhero project for literacy.
She then asked me to get the table ready for the children to work on. I covered the table in newspaper and put the glue, glue sticks and green paper triangles for the sides of the chair onto the table so I was prepared for the children to do this task.
When the children started gluing the wood they were starting to get disheartened because the glue wasn’t sticking. They were saying “I cant do it” and “ Its too hard” I reassured the children that they can do it and to remember when we were calm and patient the week before that it worked and will work this time. They agreed and carried on.
A couple of children were getting over excited and were starting to get very noisy so I asked them to be quiet and Mrs Bell asked them to use their “inside voices”. We carried on gluing but still the same children kept being noisy and disrupting the others so I told Mrs Bell who then removed them and sat them at her table. I apologised to her and the other children for the interruption and we proceeded with our work.
As the children were finishing the chairs I asked them “If they were proud of them”. They said “they were” and I replied I am too. “Well done”. Then I sent them to Mrs Bell’s table to finish their superhero literacy work.
After the children had left to go home I discussed the day’s events with Mrs Bell in particular the chair project. I said it was chaotic especially when the boys were getting noisy and had to be removed but really enjoyable.
She...