Classroom Observation Jessica Martins

I went to the Learning Experience in Basking Ridge to do my observation. I went to observe kindergarten and there were about 11 kids in the classroom. When I walked into the room they were all in centers and the teacher introduced me to the kids. The room was very colorful there were posters all over the wall. This teacher even has some posters of instruments hanging up on the walls. After she introduced me to the kids she told them to all sit in a circle and told them to each grab an instrument. The types of instruments she had were drums, the triangle, maracas, small cymbals, and rain sticks. After they all had an instrument she had them all start playing the instruments for about a minute and then she had them change instruments with another kid in the class. It got a little crazy but they all looked like they were having a good time. After the all got to play two instruments she had all the kids put the instruments back where they are suppose to go then back to the circle. When they got back to the circle the teacher went on the smart board that they have and she pulled up a bunch of songs that they could sing and dance along too. Some of the songs she pulled up were “Head Shoulders Knees and Toes”, “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” and “The Itsy Bitsy Spider”. For each one of those songs that she would sing with the kids she would have hand movements so they would sit still. The kids were very involved in what they were told to do. The part of the music lesson they loved the most was when they were singing the songs and doing the hand motions along with the song. They looked like they were very interested in it. The teacher had all the kids doing everything as I said when they were playing the instruments everyone got an instrument and started playing and when they were singing the songs the teacher made sure that everyone was doing it and she also made sure to see if they were doing the right hand motions to the song. It seemed like the kids already knew the hand motions probably from another lesson. There were no children with specialized needs in the classroom that I was observing. Throughout the whole lesson the children looked like they were enjoying it not one of them had a sad face they were all happy during the lesson. All the kids listened to her none of them misbehaved the whole time I was there. The teacher told me that in her classroom when it gets a little crazy to hug themselves and catch a bubble and they love doing that so that’s one neat thing I learned from her. She also told me in the classroom around that age you need to let loose and have fun with the kids. It was a very short music lesson other then that I would rate the classroom to be a 6. I didn’t like that it was short and I thought that maybe she could have pulled up some websites to show them instruments and some neat stuff like that. Yes I would recommend this class and teacher to another teacher because this teacher was so energetic and her kids love her in the classroom.