This weeks observation went smooth
During group time, the teacher had an audio book reading that had a voice that was so animated it grabbed all the children's attention. She held the book and turned the page as the reader on the cassette read the last word. Pointing to the images on the paper as the narrator spoke the children laughed and repeated the last repetitious line that was said at the end of each page. With such excitement to whats going to happen next, the children were all sitting up off their bottoms and now on bended legs.
Teacher: What happened to the pancake
Child 1: the fox eat em up then he put em in his face and eat em up
Teacher: Did the pancake look mad
Child 2: The fox is gonna eat em
Such great responses from the children. In the story the fox was telling the pancake to come closer because he didn't hear him. So after about 4 times of telling the pancake to come closer the reader said the pancake was an inch away from the fox's face. So when child 1 replied he eat em up, he put em in his face", I thought that was so great how he picked up on the pancake being eatten because he was close to the fox's face.
The teacher had a table setup for the children to draw the pancake by painting him on a sandwich bag. That was a nice way of expanding the story to giving the children time to socializing with others with communicating their life stories with the story that was read. One child even brought up a time he made pancakes at home. I would of extended this story by providing pancakes for snack time. Prompting the children to pretend like the other animals that were trying to eat the pancake and eventually acting like the fox and eating the pancake. So because it wasn't done the same time as the reading, I would have it for tomorrow's activity during snack time.
