Today I had a wonderful "teaching moment." My youngest students are adorable and can communicate but are just learning the basics. Normally we have two pages from one book to work through and a really basic story to do reading comprehension with. Today however was different. Today we were doing Writing Steps.... Writing Steps is the bane of my existence because it is perpetually to advanced for my students. Anyway, I was making due and teaching them about nouns, verbs, and adjectives. The book was not helping, but I was trying to make the most of the examples which were waaay too complicated…. Then I went to the whiteboard and tried to explain what each was in the simplest and most repetitive way possible… I kept asking them to help me and stayed on the easy stuff for awhile and then slowly asked harder questions… It all clicked for me… I kept repeating different adjectives and the word adjective together until they were answering quickly…. It was very exciting, but we were running out of time, so I gave them the rest as homework… One of the girls proceeds to write the things on the board into her book to help her remember (a compliment in itself) when the girl next to her looks at me and says “Teacher, I don’t need that. I remember! Noun – thing. Verb – Action! and Adjective – Big, small-blue…” trailing off in a smile… I was soo happy. She is the same one that looked at me with the saddest eyes and said “Teacher…when are YOU leaving?” long and drawn out like I was about to tell her there was no santa… It was so cute! Needless to say it is times like those when I glow for a moment in the satisfaction of being able to teach a person something that they will remember for a long time… she doesn’t need to remember that I taught her, I am just so excited that I made it happen.
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