Day 2: 7-16-10

My second day in the classroom which we were coving math counting. The children place on hats, shirts and socks with numbers on them. The numbers on the clothing that the children wore represented different sets of numbers as in the 20’s 10’s 30’s etc. I wish I would have taken my camera to take a picture of the children because they were really have fun while learning.. It gave me an idea to keep with me to have the same math counting strategies as the had set up for them.
I couldn’t pinpoint a child who capture my heart because had a chance to work with all the children in my classroom. I had a chance to bond with the children out on the playground during recess. I observed the children when they play as in who go for the slide or swing. How they respect each other and how the children play with certain other children in their classroom. I watched how the children tested each of the playground equipment and invited other children to come and play along.
The Mr. McCraw told me that some of the students parents are very protective of them and some allow the teacher to do everything without reinforcement at home. Some of the children are very shy when it comes to interacting with their peers. I feel that the parents should become more involved in their child school curriculum. Its important that the learning and development of child is met through the teacher and the parent together.
The students began counting what they was assigned either on the hat, shirt, or socks. Each one of the students successful master the content that was giving to them. The shy students were trying to hide behind the curtain or under the table. The shy students were funny because they were acting like they were invisible to the teacher and their peers.
There was one student James who was completely deaf in one ear and semi in the other. He wore an hearing aid which he kept adjusting around his ear. I thought about the hearing aid that goes inside the ear instead of around the ear. The teacher had to tell the James to stop messing with her ear and place his hands back on his work. James replied back with either his ear is itching or his hearing aid was falling from his ear.
So Mr.McCraw talked to his parent about the issue that is interfering with his school work. And he suggested that they take him back to the doctor for adjustments or to see if the kind that goes in his ear is available for his type of hearing lost. The replied back with the inner ear type of hearing aid is not available for him and they tired everything. Well Mr.McCraw brought a connector that you used for eyewear but in a kid size to keep the hearing aid from falling from James ear. With the parents permission to try this method the teacher adjusted the connector onto both the hearing aids with the connector hanging in the back and it worked; problem solved.




http://www.asha.org/public/hearing/treatment/child_aids.htm