Shilpa Krishnan B

  In this week, I had completed the ch3, The Shipwrecked Sailor. Apart from the other chapters that I had taught,  this chapter was a bit challenging and demanding.  The chapter had a whole bunch of new words and phrases which needs a proper in-depth explanation. On each day I dedicate few minutes for a quick quiz session inorder to help the students get track with the key incidents of the chapter. The children were really curious throughout the session and also many of them clarified their doubts. Also I regularly made the children read the text aloud in my class, by randomly calling out their names. By doing so, I get to know, how many of them face difficulty in reading and understanding the word, spellings and pronunciation. Along with it, I also conducted a dictation, in which several students attempted really well. On 25th July,  I got substitution in VIII F, where I taught few paragraphs of the chapter,  The Boy Who Drew Cats. 

  In this week, I moved further with the portions. Since Monday was a public holiday and Tuesday was a holiday due to the demise of Former Chief Minister of Kerala,  Sri Ommen Chandy, the week started with Wednesday. On the day, I gave the students notes of the chapter,  We're The World,  and gave a quick recap of the entire lyric. After that a quick quiz session was kept to identify the level at which each student had gathered knowledge on the chapter.  On the very next day, I started with the new unit of the text, named, Wings and Wheels, which comprises of the central theme of traveling. The first chapter is titled,  "The Shipwrecked Sailor ", which is a small portion of the novella,  'The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor ', by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. I gave them a detailed description of the backstory pf the novella and about the key incidents that had taken place in the life of the protagonist.  Children were really curious to find out the twist...

  The fifth week of the teaching practice mainly dealt with taking classes, giving notes and participating in the related duties assigned to us. During the first day of the week I taught the students a grammar lesson,  Question Tag. Inorder to teach them, I presented two charts, one with the definitions and examples and the other one beholding the rules and exceptions of question tag. In detail and clear idea of the topic was presented to the students and simple examples were given to them for easy comprehension. Several exercises were also given to the children to make the content clear to them.  On the second and third days of the week I didn't had class due to the monthly tests. On the fourth day, I gave the students remaining notes of the chapter,  The Boy Who Drew Cats. In between I also checked their handwriting and the common mistakes that they make while copying the notes written on the blackboard. During Friday,  I taught them the new chapter,  "We...

    The fourth week of my teaching practice little bit challenging since there was shuffling of classes taking place. The first day of the week, that is, 3rd July was the ST Thomas Day, our school had holiday. On the next day I taught my children in VIII F, the poem Taj Mahal by Rabindranath Tagore. But on the second day, VIII F was dissolved and the students were splitted to 3 different divisions. Since it will take some time for the formation of new VIII F, my in-charge teacher assigned another class for me, which is VIII D for the time being. In the class I taught the Taj Mahal,  and gives notes regarding the chapter. Also an entire period was spend to teach them the poetic devices used in the poem.  Apart from our classes we also did the discipline duty and noon meal duty.

  The third week of the teaching practice was more of a normal one,  since more focus were given to the completion of portions, teaching of grammar and so on. Also this week had two holidays for Bakrid. I taught my children question tag and its rules in my previous class, so additional exercises on thr topic was given to them and discussed it in the class. Later I gave them the notes of the chapter 'The Boy Who Drew Cats' by writing it on the Blackboard.  In VIII F class, my in-charge teacher conducted a class test on the chapter,  The Mysterious Picture on 27 June 2023, and children were provided questions by the teacher. The question consisted of answer the following and grammar questions regarding question tag. On July 1 I had conducted the Diagnostic Test on the chapter The Boy Who Drew Cats and the students actively took part in the test.