I didn't plan for the success of Story Time with Old Mother Hubbard...
Over the past two weeks, Greer (the other PSIII student at my school) and I had been planning and preparing for a story time club. We decided that we need to dress up and open it to the whole school. Last week we went around to all of the classrooms to promote our club and handed out permission forms. We have over 100 students sign up. On Monday, I ran the first story time and the students loved the costume and reading fractured fairy tales with just under 50. Greer ran the next day with just over 60. It has been so cool to share our love of literature with our students.
I didn't plan for losing my voice and get sick...
This week has been tough with losing my voice, staying home sick and returning to school battling the remnants of a cold that will not go away. Although, it is always tough being sick it gave me a chance to slow down and reflect on what I was doing in the classroom and what I could improve. I realized that I need to come up with a creative way to engage my students in learning how to solve math problems. The answer was to create Ninja math. We came up with a different ninja move to help us remember the steps to breaking down word problems. It was a great lesson which helped my students understand how to break down word problems to solvable portions. I never would have thought of this idea if it wasn't for my 'sick time reflection'.
I didn't plan to be so encouraged this week...
This week I had the chance to call the parents of my students. In each call we would talk about their child's strengths and their goals for their child. I heard numerous time how much my students were enjoying having me as a teacher. This made all the aches of sickness and a tiring week all worth it.
I didn't plan for my science lesson to flop...
As I was in the middle of my science lesson I realized that so many things were going wrong. Having students do stations was too much for them to process with a workbook that was photocopied wrong, with the workbook for recording their experiments being out of order, students missing so group sizes were larger, smartboard activity being more distracting that helpful, each station taking different lengths of times and the students observing different objectives than what I had planned. All in all, we still were able to talk about what friction was through class discussion on the carpet.
Over the past two weeks, Greer (the other PSIII student at my school) and I had been planning and preparing for a story time club. We decided that we need to dress up and open it to the whole school. Last week we went around to all of the classrooms to promote our club and handed out permission forms. We have over 100 students sign up. On Monday, I ran the first story time and the students loved the costume and reading fractured fairy tales with just under 50. Greer ran the next day with just over 60. It has been so cool to share our love of literature with our students.
I didn't plan for losing my voice and get sick...
This week has been tough with losing my voice, staying home sick and returning to school battling the remnants of a cold that will not go away. Although, it is always tough being sick it gave me a chance to slow down and reflect on what I was doing in the classroom and what I could improve. I realized that I need to come up with a creative way to engage my students in learning how to solve math problems. The answer was to create Ninja math. We came up with a different ninja move to help us remember the steps to breaking down word problems. It was a great lesson which helped my students understand how to break down word problems to solvable portions. I never would have thought of this idea if it wasn't for my 'sick time reflection'.
I didn't plan to be so encouraged this week...
This week I had the chance to call the parents of my students. In each call we would talk about their child's strengths and their goals for their child. I heard numerous time how much my students were enjoying having me as a teacher. This made all the aches of sickness and a tiring week all worth it.
I didn't plan for my science lesson to flop...
As I was in the middle of my science lesson I realized that so many things were going wrong. Having students do stations was too much for them to process with a workbook that was photocopied wrong, with the workbook for recording their experiments being out of order, students missing so group sizes were larger, smartboard activity being more distracting that helpful, each station taking different lengths of times and the students observing different objectives than what I had planned. All in all, we still were able to talk about what friction was through class discussion on the carpet.