It was Thursday afternoon, January 27, 2010 when I started to observed in DESES where I assigned. My cooperating teacher is still Mrs. Florida V. Mascardo handling grade IV pupils. I came in her classroom exactly 1:30 in yhe afternoon and the discussion was already started. The teaher of that time was Mr. Daniel Montoya, the assigned intern teacher in that classroom. The subject scheduled that time was Science and he tackled about the Earth and its System such as number of the moon, position of the earth in the universe , how it revolve and rotate to the sun, the duration or the complete days that the earth completed the whole revolution to the sun. Also Mr. Montoya tackled the four phases of the moon and those are full moon, new moon, crescent and gibous moon. Mr. Montoa conducted a group activity for the pupils after discussions. I observed that, he discussed the lessons well for the pupils to all got the correct answer in the group activities. I also observed that even he was just still an intern teacher, he has a strategy how to give the lessons and understand well by his pupils. And I think, Mrs. Mascardo, our cooperating teacher satisfied what Mr. Montoya did in the class.
After 1 hour, Mrs. Mascardo taught another subject which was Math and she discussed about how to get the volume of an object or figure. After 10 minutes discussing the topic she gave an 5 items test to her pupils. She gave 10 minutes to answer the items and after that they checked it immediately. After checked it they got the result and sadly the pupils just got 61%. Because of the result, Mrs. Mascardo repeated the topic and after that she gave some exercises for the pupils to be familiar on the topic. Whie they answering the exercises, ther were teachers who invited us in to the other classroom an according to them there was a birthday celebration of one of the pupils. I refuse to joined with them and I told them that I was just stay and I will just takecare the pupils for them to avoid accidents and some noise. Mr. Montoya joined to them. While Mrs. Mascardo and Mr. Montoya were out I decided to give some exercises to the pupils related with their topic which was the finding the volume. After a while they came back to the classroom and they brought me a foods and we ate together because they just also takeout their foods.
It was already 4:30 pm and it was the time for the cleaners to clean the room before they can go home. I and Mr. Montoya helped them to cleaned the entire classroom. After 10 mins. we finished cleaning and we said goodbye to each other.
"See you all next time"