Student Name: Mahra Al Qassimi

Username ID: H00330597

Course Name: Practicum 3a
Course Code: EPC 3403
Course Teacher: Antoinette Wiseman
Task Title: Journal 2
Thing started getting easier, the students and I began developing a professional

teacher-student relationship. I started talking to Ms. Hamda about the curriculum

and focused on the English, Math, and Science lessons. The curriculum this year is

easier, e.g. Last years KG 2 students were already focusing on both reading and

writing, whereas this years KG 2 are mostly focusing on reading. This years

students barely knew how to write their name in English on their own compared to

Ms. Ebtihals students. This terms focus is revolved around Phonic Sounds, the

students will be able to recognize, identify, and blend phonic sounds. Some

students were able to write words such as sat or as just by listening attentively

to the pronunciation of the word. On October 15, Ms. Antoinette came to observe

me. I taught a Phonic sound /p/, I went ahead by asking the students how theyve

been and sang as a whole class the Hello song I used this song with my previous

students, it gets them hyped up and motivated to start the day and the action moves

are quite simple to follow and memorize. I revised previous sounds that theyve

learned before (/a/, /s/, /t/) using picture cards and then moved on to the sound /p/.

The words that the students were focusing on is popcorn, penguin, and

pirate. The activity that I choose was like a revision for all phonic sounds

instead of only /p/ only. I choose a group of 4-5 students and explained to them

the activity. I handed out the cards and say words such as apple and tiger and

the students have to point to the letter that correlates with the beginning sounds.
This activity is to check who has the ability to identify it by sound, I assessed the

students by using a checklist. During this week, I tried my best to move fast and

get things done, such as teaching them a science lesson and working on

observation 4.