Left for school before 7:30 this morning, only to find the student I was to observe was absent. So typical. Today we did "skills bank" in the computer lab. This pretests students on grammar and usage skills, then provides lessons and quizzes in different areas, such as nouns, verbs, etc. I'm wondering whether we ever use this to complement what we've done in the classroom, or whether it's just an activity that is supposedly individualized and works in a computer lab with a group of any size.
We didn't get to reading groups at all today, so I'm wondering about the use of all the parapros in our classroom. Even when we do get to read, it's only about 1/4 to 1/3 of the class time anyway. We have so many adults in there, I feel like we should be really shaking things up, getting the children involved in their learning in many different ways. At the very least, small groups!
I started thinking about grammar today, and teaching grammar. Why do we teach about nouns and verbs? I assume we do it so students can learn correct sentence structure. But I'm not sure we ever make it that far. We just want them to be able to identify the different parts of speech, and not how they go together to make grammatically correct sentences. Of course, this is not really a strength of mine either.
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