I found as I went around the different classrooms, the teacher worked really hard to express all of her words so the students would understand her.
As the day progressed, we went to the computer lab and the ELL students were doing math games on the computers. I then noticed that one student was crying at his station ( I was told he is a new student who only spoke Portuguese and missed his parents) that's why he was crying.
I asked the teacher what the math project was, and was told it was asking (what had less or more in each box). I asked how do you say these words in Portuguese, and then had the student take off his headset that was speaking English to him and when the computer asked which is less and more.
I would say the word in Portuguese to him and he stopped crying and got all the rest of the math questions right after we figured out the problem with his crying at the computer.
I would say the word in Portuguese to him and he stopped crying and got all the rest of the math questions right after we figured out the problem with his crying at the computer.
Here are some pictures of some of the school and classroom instruction that I noticed during the day.
