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February 24th - greetings

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  As always, I taught the same class for both 4 th grade 4 and 4 th grade 5. As always, class goes better on the second group, and I wonder if it is because the others are still warming up as my class is the first one of the day, or if it is because I am testing my class plan, so I usually make some mistakes with the first group and correct them with the second. I am grateful that I am teaching more than one group of same age kids, so I can improve my class plan and check what works and what does not. With the first group, I started playing the song and asking them what they understood. As the sentences are really simple, I thought they would understand most of them, but I was wrong. Then, with the second, I wrote all the sentences of the song on the board out of order and asked them to translate to Portuguese. If they did not know before, I would help. The greetings song Good morning. Good afternoon. Good evening. Good night. Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you, too. Goodbye. S...
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February 7th to 9th - getting to know everybody

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  Here in Mariana, for the kids classes we still do not have a book or brochure to use with our students. Last year we had, but in 2022 not yet. But even if we had, I do not think it would be ok to use it in the first week. So I watched some youtube videos to give me some ideas of games or songs to use in the first week, to get to know each other. As I was expected to have 23 different groups of kids, I decided to have the same class plan for all of them, making small changes according to age. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prXvhy8hvFk The first two days and a half of classes were really good and they seem to receive my approach well. In almost all groups they asked me where I was from or if I was from Brazil. One of them thought I was from China. It is funny how the very young look at me around the corridors or the canteen, like I was an E.T. I am trying to keep this magic, so, every time I need to talk to another teacher (in Portuguese, of course) I do it in a very low voice...
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March 21st to 23rd - Alphabet

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This is my second class about alphabet to 1st and 2nd grade students I already said that I do not like to teach alphabet to 1st grade students, as they are still being alphabetized in Portuguese and the pronunciations of vowels A, E and I can be very confused. But, as BNCC says we need to teach it in the 1st two months of the school year, I prepared my classes of this week to work like this: 1st part dedicated to alphabet and 2nd part dedicated to numbers (even tough numbers are not supposed to be taught now), both topics with song activities. I always entered the classroom, greeted everybody and explained that we were going to listen to two songs that day. When I taught the first group of the week, I did not know what to do so I asked them what song they wanted to listen to first: alphabet or numbers? They answered alphabet and I found that worked well, so, for the next groups, I did not ask. Maybe because the song is lullaby, they stayed very calm. We listened to that three times: on...
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