Field Blog-St. Joseph School Visit 2

On my second visit to St. Joseph School, the day once again started with announcements, the pledge of allegiance, and a decade of the rosary.  After the announcements were completed, the students worked on their daily Simple Solutions. When the students were finished working, they got to color an Indian to help decorate their classroom for Thanksgiving.  After the children were done coloring their Indians, they checked their Simple Solutions by going around the room and each getting a turn to answer a question.  After completing Simple Solutions, the students got the chance to go to the school book fair.  While at the book fair, I got to walk around and help the kids select which books they wanted to purchase.  When the children were done looking around the book fair, the librarian read them a story.  The students then went back to their classroom and started their math lesson for the day.  During their math lesson, the students were learning problem solving using multiplication.  While learning the lesson, the teacher gave the students’ opportunities to answer different questions.  When the children were done with math, they went to computer class.  After computer, they started working on their spelling words for the week.  First, the students had to write the words down in their student planners.  When they had completed that, they worked on pages in their reading workbooks.  After all of the students had finished their workbook pages, they read the story for the week together on the carpet.  Rather than the teacher reading the story aloud, they listened to an audiobook version of the story.