On my first day back observing, I went to Oak Grove Elementary School. I was placed in two different classrooms. I observed Mrs. Robinson’s fourth grade classroom and Mrs. Moore’s fourth grade classroom. I was able to see two totally different types of teaching strategies and styles. All of the students were learning reading during the time that I was there. The reading lesson for this particular day was poetry. The teachers were explaining the parts of a poem to the students. They were labeling the stanzas, lines, and rhymes throughout a poem.

Mrs. Moore’s classroom was set up with all of her students in groups of four. She did this so that her students could help the other students that did not completely understanding the