Friendship Cards.♥

 

Since Salini teacher has joined as a guest instead of Sapna teacher, I was instructed to finish my portions in 8J and engage another class. I was sad becuase the learners of 8J were so close to me. It was a lively class. I'll miss them. 

Usha teacher allotted 8E class to me and asked me to meet Rethi teacher and discuss the portions with her. Rethi teacher gave me necessary instruction and an overview of the class.

I showed a postcard which chandu has sent me months before to the learners. We discussed how important it is to have good friends. Then, I asked learners of 9C to write friendship messages to their friends. Colour papers were distributed among them. They made beautiful cards and wrote warm messages to their friends. Towards the end of the class, I told them that I'll give the cards to their friends in secret. Many of them made beautiful drawings in the card and they thoroughly enjoyed the activity.

03/11/2023♥

I had my first class of the day with 8J. I helped them understand the structure of an appreciation and its elements. I discussed various poetic devices and gave examples to have a better understanding. Later, activity cards were distributed among the learners and they were asked to complete it in groups. Learners actively worked in groups and finished the task. I understood the importance of activity cards and other stuff in keeping the learners engaged. Later, I asked them to attempt to write an appreciation of The Sower. The learners did a really good job given the fact that it was their first time writing one. I engaged 8J for another hour since one of the teachers was absent.

I dealt with the part in The Last Leaf where Johnsy was counting backwards. Learners made rational remarks about the importance of hope in people's lives.

New responsibilities♥

As we were walking to the office, a learner was standing at the corridor. She was crying and having difficulty to breathe. We made her lay in a bench, warmed up her limbs, called her parents and Najma teacher took her to the hospital. I was told to wait at the office since another teacher was engaging 8J. I engaged 8J during the second hour and completed The Sower. I had planned to make them write an appreciation of the poem. But the learners said that they didn't know how to write one. Thus, I made them write answers of the textual questions. I decided to engage them for another hour and teach them how to write an appreciation. I collected their notebooks to assess their works and writing. I corrected the minute errors and left a note of positive reinforcement on the margin.

My class with 9C dealt with The Last Leaf. When we were discussing the difficult words and I was explaining Bohemian I mentioned how they hate institutions like families and all. The learners asked me whether family is an institution. I told them that marriage, family, school etc. are all institutions. A learner asked me if friendship is one. I gave them scaffolding questions and they found the answer on their own. Then when we were discussing 'stalking', I mentioned Annayum Rasoolum movie and how Fahad stalks her. I told them that stalking is a crime and shouldn't be celebrated or normalized. I'm loving the fact that I'm getting to discuss such things to the learners.

കേരളപ്പിറവി♥

Celebrations and programmes were arranged for the whole school. Principal and additional HM delivered message for the students regarding the need to celebrate Kerala and be responsible members of the society. The programme was hosted by students of UP section and they did their job very well. Learners from UP and HS sections adorned the day with their artistic potentials. A presentation on milestones of the History of Kerala was also shown. The language pledge was taken by the learners and teachera. I was assigned charge to maintain discipline during the programme along with fellow student teachers and teachers. The whole vibe was so vibrant and learners were bursting with energy.

The teacher handed over attendance roll of 8J and told me to complete it since Sapna teacher was transferred and the guest teacher was hasn't joined yet. Later, I supervised 10F during their unit test. Both my regular hours were lost due to the Keralapiravi celebrations.

Back to School

I engaged 8J during the first hour. I dealt with the first 3 stanzas of The Sower. Introduction activity went as I had anticipated and all three learers who got the packages guessed that the theme of today's lesson will be farming. I wrote a quote by MS Swaminathan on the blackboard and initiated a discussion about the importance of agriculture. Learners shared their opinions and I wrote their responses on the board. The poem was short and simple. While appreciating the poem, I mentioned personification and alliteration and learners identified instances of personification they've come across and created examples for alliteration using their names. After the first hour, I engaged them for another hour during which two learners got into a verbal fight. I stood there watching and once it was settled, I told them how important it is to make sure that the opppsite person is not hurt, whenever we are engaging in a conversation or something else. I told them how important it is to apologize if they end up hurting people by chance.

I was told to conduct a test based on the poem 'Song of the Rain' in 9C. Shameem Teacher has handed over the questions to me. I reached the class by 1 10 and wrote the stanza for the comprehension question on the white board. I dictated the questions. Some of the learners were attending the IT exam and I postponed the exam by 10 minutes so that they could finish their exam and have their lunch. A learner randomly mentioned that she found it compassionate that I decided to do so. I felt happy hearing it. I realized how these small gestures and deeds leave a positive impact on the learners.

Rejoined!

As soon as the exams were over, we were asked to go to the school, meet the teachers and discuss the lessons. I went and met learners from 8J and 9C to ask about the lessons since both the teachers were absent. Later, I talked to Shameem Tr over phone and she gave me instruction on the lesson to be taken.

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