Today, I had my second Open Class. Open Class is a full 40 minute period of observations... by the student's parent. I forgot to mention, all of my student's parents in one very hot, small room. The parents are there to observe their childs progress in English, but I know that I am the one that is under observation. My first Open Class went very well and everyone left happy and pleased. I felt a lot of pressure to do as well, if not better, due to high expectations.
I planned a great lesson. My students created words with beginning s blends using their letter cards, while I modeled with my pocket chart. Next, I read aloud a passage from their phonics books and clapped everytime they heard an s blend. They completed their workbook and then on to the game. It was all going too well.
The game was four corners. Each child gets a picture card and goes to the matching blend posted at each corner of the room. While the students were moving to their corner, one of my top students got sick, right next to the parents! They all moved back...it was everywhere!
Teacher mode set in. I grabbed all of the tissues from my room and assisted the student, along with at few parents. Next, I assisted a student with cleaning his shoe and throwing a few of my picture cards in the trash. I lined everyone up and to the library we went. Of course there was not any chairs in the library, because they were in the classrooms for the observations, so I made do. We placed an I Spy board game with consonant blends.
The signs all pointed to what was going to happen. This morning the same student came up to me and said that she had a fever at home (parents send their children sick to school here). Right before my class, I was joking with a fellow co-worker about horrible situations for an Open Class. I said, "Wouldn't that be funny if a kid got sick." Well, coming from expierence, it wasn't very humorous.
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