JOURNAL 4

     I felt really good at implementing the lesson plan this week. Students from both grades (604 and 605) made some gift cards for Mom’s day, they decorated them and wrote beautiful and creative messages for their moms. Students from 604 were rarely well behaved and concentrated. Besides, most of them were excited about the reaction that their mother will have when they received the cards. In the end, most of the students had finished their work and they went home happily. Next day, they told me that their mom was glad and excited because of the surprise.         
     Unfortunately, students from 605 were not the same. Despite the fact that I did the same activity and we were in a comfortable classroom with air conditioning, students did not stop talking and some of them started running around the classroom damaging their classmates’ work. Others didn’t have the cardboard, scissors or markers that they had brought because another classmate had stolen them. I got mad and took them back to their usual classroom and there, they worked kind of well. They are very rude and most of them do not care about anything. These students are repeating the course for the second or third time, so they are older than other students from 6^th grade.
     After this lesson, I found out that some students need someone who talks to them in a sweet way, with love, while others need someone strict and firm who reminds them of the rules. Students from 605 definitively work better when I turn to a rigorous teacher, however, I feel that I can’t take this attitude every day.