9-29-11

Today was my 3rd day leading song. At this point, I am really starting to feel comfortable being animated in that position and calling on children for their turns. I try to see which of the children are sitting nicely to pick them to choose a song, but if I see a child (especially atypical) who is getting restless, I try to give them a turn too to hopefully help with that restlessness. Today, the cord came out and the computer turned off right before the rest of the class was about to walk in the room for song group. We plugged it back in and turned it on, and I think we all recovered nicely by singing the "Hello" song and the "A B C's" without the aid of the computer as we were waiting on it to turn on. Today was a good lesson that often there will be technical difficulties, and we need to be careful to not depend on technology too much, as well as be able to react to different situations when there is technical difficulties. I am still debating on what to do next week as far as song goes, but I will be listening to the Raffi CDs and use that for influence. See everyone tomorrow!