First week of field

The first week of field was good because it helped me understand the 1st grade a little better. I'm in a classroom of about 19 children. They have a system where 9 students come in at 8 called the early birds. We focus in on them with writing stories, reading and reading groups. Then at 9:10 the rest of the students show up. They are known as the later gators and they will stay an hour after the early birds leave. Our group is with 3 students only they are ones who are struggling with reading more. Fluency doesn't come easy for them and they will sound out words and then guess a completely different word. For example one of the students was sounding out the word ran and he would say r-an, r-an, run. This has been hard for me cause we are teaching in an area that is a little more poor. I've watched children come to school without jackets on when it's snowing, or look like they haven't bathed much. They have to do charity drives for jackets and shoes for the students. We are now getting prepared for next week because we are teaching our science lesson on nutrition and starting our personal readers. I hope this week goes well.