Lynchwood Elementary – Winter 2014

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    WebMaestrex
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    Jacob Gerke
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    Date of Class: 2/4/2014
    Day of Class: Tuesday
    MC: Jacob
    DJ: N/A
    Assistants: N/A
    Module: Telephone Etiquette
    How Many Learners: 3
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    What happened (as short or as long as you like, but be specific):
    It was quite nice to see Amber and the folks at Lynch Wood again. That’s where I started… almost two years ago.

    Anyway, the class itself went okay. With only three people, one of them high level, I actually blew through my lesson plan pretty quickly, but I was able to improvise by grabbing some pictures of things related to using the telephone off my phone. Hooray technology!

    #903
    Jacob Gerke
    Spectator

    Date of Class: 2/11/2014
    Day of Class: Tuesday
    MC: Jacob
    DJ: N/A
    Assistants: N/A
    Module: Telephone Etiquette
    How Many Learners: 3
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    What happened (as short or as long as you like, but be specific):
    Two of the same students from last class, plus a “new” student who has been to several other sites before.

    Interesting class. The first student, L, came 5 minutes late, and I had prepared for us to listen to a phone menu and write down what was being said. She blew through what I figured would take the normal 3 students about 15 minutes to write down, and for awhile I thought she’d be the only one there, so I was thinking of ways that I could challenge her.

    As this was happening, I had two other students come in, who are much lower level than L, so I adjusted by working with J and helping her catch up, and having L help P, which was the way the rest of the class went as I went through the lesson I had planned. I felt a little down in that I had a chance to push L’s learning, but at the same time, helping out P was nice for her as well, I think.

    #1307
    Jacob Gerke
    Spectator

    Date of Class: 02/18/14
    Day of Class: Tuesday
    MC: Jacob
    DJ: N/A
    Assistants: N/A
    Module: Telephone Etiquette
    How Many Learners: 3
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    What happened (as short or as long as you like, but be specific):
    Tonight was kind of challenging. I had one returning student, L, and two new students, J and M. M was a high level learner, and J was a very beginning learner. This presented a challenge, and I mostly helped J by spelling words out for him using the alphabet sheet, though I could have had L do that, and she did do that some of the time.

    I made things a little more interesting by bringing a sheet with me that had the military phonetic alphabet, and I had them practice that, first by just reading each word (bravo, charlie, delta, etc), then spelling out their name by writing “M for Mike, J for Juliet” and then reading that out loud. Afterward, I had a basic phone dialogue where they confirmed the spelling of a street name using this phonetic alphabet.

    I had intended to have them write a short message to leave on my phone, but I ran out of time to give directions on how to do that; I also forgot to go over the phone permission part of the loyalty cards. Next time, I’ll focus on this part, and definitely work in some real phone usage during the lesson. It worked at Lynch Meadows… I can make it work here.

    #1333
    Jacob Gerke
    Spectator

    Date of Class: 02/25/2014
    Day of Class: Tuesday
    MC: Jacob
    DJ: N/A
    Assistants: N/A
    Module: Telephone Etiquette
    How Many Learners: 3
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    What happened (as short or as long as you like, but be specific):
    Phew! It’s a rotating cup game here at Lynch Wood… but it’s always three people! L as usual, plus M from last week and R making her return from last term. These three are actually quite highly skilled… so my lesson plan only took them 30 minutes to get through. Fortunately I had some backup ideas… we spent about 30 minutes listening and writing down the Rockwood Library’s automated telephone system options, and then we practiced asking for and confirming information over the phone. Only R brought her phone, but she didn’t mind letting the others use it to call me while I stepped out of the room, so that we could practice this in a bit of a more realistic setting.

    Afterwards, I had about 10 minutes left, so we did some TPR to loosen up after all that writing, and that was that!

    #1350
    Jacob Gerke
    Spectator

    Date of Class: 03/04/2014
    Day of Class: Tuesday
    MC: Jacob
    DJ: N/A
    Assistants: N/A
    Module: Emergency Preparedness
    How Many Learners: 3
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    What happened (as short or as long as you like, but be specific):
    The same three as last week! Hooray!

    This group is becoming a lot of fun, mostly because they are very quick and comfortable with writing, so you can dictate really long strings of dialogue really easily. It’s hard to feel like I’m keeping them fully engaged… everything seems too easy for them.

    I had them write down their name, address, phone number and location (address of the school), and then flip over their notebooks and repeat all that information. After that, I did some listen & point with a list of common household chemicals that are poisonous, and did some dictation using a household hazards list. Finally, I dictated a very simple example 911 conversation and had them practice that with each other.

    What amazed me though, was that last week at Lynch Meadows, part of one of the homework assignments I was given was a crossword puzzle… I didn’t use it in class (though it might have worked… maybe), but one of my students had actually solved all but one word on the puzzle over the weekend. I showed her where the last answer was, and she finished it! Wow!

    #1387
    Jacob Gerke
    Spectator

    Date of Class: 03/11/2014
    Day of Class: Tuesday
    MC: Jacob
    DJ: N/A
    Assistants: Kalen
    Module: Emergency Preparedness
    How Many Learners: 2
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    What happened (as short or as long as you like, but be specific):
    Darnit! Attendance dropped, as M didn’t show up but the other two did. Patrik, Amber and I were all ready for that March attendance boost to happen here… and instead we lost one. But we have no intentions of giving up!

    It was a little slow because we only had one for the first half hour of class, so getting Kalen involved was a bit difficult for me. But I definitely managed, and when R showed up, it was a lot easier. It’s fun coming up with ways to challenge these much higher level students.

    #1404
    Jacob Gerke
    Spectator

    Date of Class: 03/18/2014
    Day of Class: Thursday
    MC: Jacob
    DJ: N/A
    Assistants: Kalen
    Module: Emergency Preparedness
    How Many Learners: 3
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    What happened (as short or as long as you like, but be specific):
    3… is a magic number. For here, anyway. It’s the number we can’t break. I saw, in total, six different people come through this classroom. Some only came here, some came to other sites, and some came once and then never again. We’ll figure this out.

    I think I gave the best class of the term. It helps having 3 people show up. I did some dictation of emergency supplies, which essentially concluded with non-perishable food – I had the students (and myself and Kalen) come up with examples of non-perishable food, and we wrote them down.

    Then we did some TPR with some emergency supplies (drink water, blow your whistle, crank your radio), then more dictation, this time with a first aid kit I bought from Target. I used most of the items from the kit in the “this is an apple” activity, and then we concluded with a little more dictation, because there was only five minutes left. I went a minute over! Whoops!

    I definitely got Kalen more involved this class then last class, so I was happy about that. Hope she keeps coming back!

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