Well I can't believe that our Tuesday Experience is almost over, I will really miss my class!
This week is conferences so in the morning I couldn't be in the classroom, was there anybody who was able to stay for a parent-teacher conference? Well because of conferences they had a short day, dismissal was at 1:30.
Because it was a short day and I am more confident in the classroom the teacher let me take charge of the class. Morning meeting is conduct by the students and the teacher supervises, so I supervised. Then I brought and picked the class up from PE. Once the class reached the classroom I transitioned them into the social studies lesson I had prepared for the day. I was please with how well the lesson went. The students were amazing, they were so well behaved and we had some very productive discussions, and unlike when I first did discussions with the class we didn't go off topic.
The lesson I did with the students was on Native Americans. I introduced the lesson by going over the Woodland Native Americans. The map was taken out so that students could point to the region that would be considered woodlands. After I did a mini-picture walk through the story I was going to read them that took place in the Woodland region. I asked what cues from the pictures let them know the story took place in the woodlands. I then read The Rough Face Girl. The book has amazing illustrations and can be used if you are doing a lesson on fairy tales or Cinderella stories. After we discussed the book and illustrations. I then wrapped up the lesson and told them what story we would be doing next Tuesday which took place in the Plains.
I had a great time doing this lesson and the class was wonderful and very attentive. I am really going to miss them when our time is up in the classroom!
So what is going on in your field experiences? Are you having a good time? How are your students?
2 comments:
Anna I am so pleased to see that you had such a positive experience with doing your social students lesson. The book sounds great, and I loved especially your opening to the lesson. It almost sounds like you are doing a mini social studies unit, as next week you are moving on to a book on the plains (different geographic regions).
I too love the oppurtunity that Tuesday Experience has given all of us and I think we all share in or difficulty with discovering that the end of this time is drawing near. i too love the students and am struggling with knowing what to say to them as that time is coming. I posted to Taylor that I think maybe it is just one of those things where we will know what to say, just the right words when they are truely needed, but I can't be certain.
Glad to hear that your lesson went well; I think that it is important to incorperate different types of lessons in your Tuesday Experience, the more practice the better.
I was wondering if you could elaborate on the discussions that you had with the book. I know that you pointed out on how well the students were during the lesson, but what did you talk about? Was it a teacher lead discussion or student? Where the questions more higher level and open ended or closed questions based on the book? Sorry for all the questions but I am interested in hearing about the discussion. My Tuesday expereince teacher is big on the students asking and telling why and how (Coginitive thinking). I think that it is starting to rub off on me.
Post a Comment