Week 1
I did not teach this week. I am in two different classes. From 8-8:45 I am in an RTI class with Mrs. Miller with 5 students. Four of the children are boys and one is a girl. I am scared because I was never taught to read using phonics, so I am trying to remember ever I learned in my CI reading classes. Since I taught preschool for two years I am trying to remember everything i taught them the letters make. My next class is in 2nd grade with Mrs. Parsons is rom 9:15-10:00. There are 21 students in my classroom, 16 boys and 5 girls. I can already tell I am going to love this class, the teacher seems super sweet and so do the kids. My teacher has good classroom management skills. She just has to say show me your ready and the class is quiet and looks right at her. I am excitied to teach.
Week 2
This week I did mostly observations, execpt for the one day my supervisor came to see me teach. She came Thursday to watch me teach in the RTI classroom. I was a nervous wreck before she got there. And I was so nervous the whole time I taught because I thought I was going to do something wrong or say something wrong. I was so happy when it was over and she said I did a great job! She complicated me and gave me great scores, I was so relieved. It was funny but after I had finished my first lesson the little girl in my RTI classroom said to me you are going to be a great teacher! This made me feel so good and she is super sweet. After my first lesson was done and over I said to myself, "alright I think I can do this".
Week 3
This is the first time I taught for the whole week. I was still kinda nervous to teach a little, but more in my 2nd grade classroom because I hadn't taught in there yet and I didn't know what Mrs. Parsons was going to think. This week we read Emperors Egg. We talked about the genre of the story and what this story was going to tell us. On Tuesday before we started reading the story I found a website online that had a live webcam of a zoo in Germany and we watched the penguins live, the children really enjoyed watching them swim and move around. I think put some students into a group and they had to act like they were zoologists. They had to pick what kind of penguin they wanted to research. Each student had their own part to reserach. One had to describe its physical features, one described the habitat they lived in, one describe how it defended itself, and the last student had to tell me what its predators are. The students have a rubric that they have to follow and convince me that this is a good penguin to add to the zoo. They will be working on this the next few weeks doing research when we have extra time. I am excited to see what they present to the class about their penguin.
Week 4
I have two weeks of teaching down, I am definetly feeling more comfortable about this, This week we are reading a story called Pine Park Mystery. The students had a lot of fun with this story. It was a mystery story where the students had to guess who was committing the crimes. Things were getting stolen in the park and it turns out it was a pet bird that had gotten lose was stealing shiny objects from the park. I had the students do a little craft with this activity. I gave each of them some clay and they had to mold the clay into a birds nest, I think gave them a peep to put in their birds nest with some jelly beans to look like eggs. This bird represented the bird that stole the Mayan bird that stole the objects from the park. The kids loved doing this activity. I then split the class into 2 different groups. They had to pick their parts fairly with everyone agreeing, that did not happen so well. Some kids got upset because they didn't want to go by the rules that the group had set. After everything was settled they practiced their parts for the readers theather that we put on at the end of the week. They did a really good job especially one of my little boys who was a tier 3 reader who had one of the main parts, he did such an awesome job. The students really enjoyed putting on the play and since they had put on reader's theater's before in this class they seemed like naturals.
Week 5
This week we read a story called Goodbye Curtis. I did not like this story and there was not much I could find for the students to really do with the story. The story had to do with a guy who had been a mailman and he was reflecting on his last day at the job. At the end of the story the neighbors threw him a party. I had the students create their own party invitation to give to Curtis for a goodbye party. They had to put where the party was at and when the party was. They got to decorate their invitations and colors them. I wish there would have been more I could have found for the students to do with this story, but since it was a short week we took our vocabulary and spelling tests early.
Week 6
The students read a story this week about a little boys personal narrative. I had the students create their own personal narratives about anything they wanted. After we read the story I had the students brainstorm about what they wanted to write about. After they had decided what they wanted to write about I gave them a worksheet that had beginning, middle, and end written on the paper. One that paper they wrote what happens in the beginning of their story, the middle and the end. Once they had that filled out with all of their ideas they wanted to write about I gave them a piece of paper for their first draft. After they wrote their first draft the next day they got out their papers and if they wanted to get with a partner I let them and they proofread their partners papers since they already knew what proofreading marks were and how to use them. One the last day of class that week we had the mobile lab, so I had the students type up their final drafts of their personal narratives. I gave the students a rubric to follow but some of them had a hard time writting more than one paragraph. I was happy they got to write and type their narratives. They did a good job. They loved being about to change the font and adding headings to their papers. It was fun. I have noticed we need to work on details.
Weeks 7
This was a fun week. We learned about China. Our Story was called China Town. I found a website online that give you an online tour of the San Diego China Town, so we did on the smartboard. The children loved it. We toured different buildings and looked at the architechure of them. We looked at their playground and school and compared them to ours. We toured some of their resturants and the food that is cooked there and talked about how their resturants are different then ours. We visted a bakery that made fortune cookies. They liked passing them to their friends and opening them to see what their fortunes were. While we made these I found a game online where they would come up and break up their own virtual fortune cookie and they had to read it to the class. So later in the week I had students make their own fortune cookies just out of paper, but they had to write their own fortune sentence to put in the cookie We toured their clothing stores and grocery stores and thier streets, there were so many pictures you could view, the kids loved talking about it and they were acting like they were there, it was so much fun. Since our story talks the Chinese New Year, we talked about what kind of animal year they were. We then watched a little YouTube video of a Chinese New Year and what they do to get ready for the parade and then the lights of the parade. The students liked to see the different light status that they make. We also talked about the different rituals they do for the Chinese New Year and how this compares to our New Year. Then at the end of the week I had the students make their own Chinese Lanterns and I took the students outside and played Chinese music and we had our own Chinese Lantern parade. This was a fun week and we learned so much by playing games, and crafts, and parades.
Week 8
This was a short week so we picked a story that would take 8 days to read The Beginners World Atlas. There were three days in this week. So I broke the story into different parts. The first part was the students read about views, standing in your back yard and looking. We talked about a birds eye view and then we talked about a map key. After we had read this first part of the story I had students create their own map of their backyard with a map key. Some of them drew their maps like they were just standing in the back yard looking and some of the students drew from a birds eye view. They all did a very good job at drawing their back yards with a mapkey. I was so proud they understood they concept of what a mapkey was. They next day we talked about an atlas and what it would show us, so before we read I had the students view google earth. We looked up different places around the world to few and different monuments. I asked them what type of view this was and was so proud they all remember a birds eye view. We looked up the school on google earth and zoomed in. We went to New York, Paris, Mt. Saint Helens, and Japan they loved taking a field trip around the world. We then read the section in our story of what a map and atlas tell us. This is a hard story but the kids are doing a great job at it.
Week 9
I only taught on Monday of this week, it was my last day. So we finished reading the story The Beginners World Atlas. This time we read about the continent North America. I asked the students how many contients there were and they all knew there were seven. Then one of my little boys says I know how many oceans there are and I asked him how many and if he could name them and he said four they are the Atlantic, Pacific, Arctic, and Indian. We have not gone over that, so I was amazed. After we had finished reading about the North America continent, I had one of the students take the authors chair and read about North American from a book that he had. We then talked about the US and how many states there were and if anyone could name capitals from other states, and little boy could name a few. After that it was time for me to leave. I was so sad and so was my teacher, we both almost cried. My students did not want me to leave. It was such a great experience and I wish I could go back for Student Teaching with the same teacher.
I did not teach this week. I am in two different classes. From 8-8:45 I am in an RTI class with Mrs. Miller with 5 students. Four of the children are boys and one is a girl. I am scared because I was never taught to read using phonics, so I am trying to remember ever I learned in my CI reading classes. Since I taught preschool for two years I am trying to remember everything i taught them the letters make. My next class is in 2nd grade with Mrs. Parsons is rom 9:15-10:00. There are 21 students in my classroom, 16 boys and 5 girls. I can already tell I am going to love this class, the teacher seems super sweet and so do the kids. My teacher has good classroom management skills. She just has to say show me your ready and the class is quiet and looks right at her. I am excitied to teach.
Week 2
This week I did mostly observations, execpt for the one day my supervisor came to see me teach. She came Thursday to watch me teach in the RTI classroom. I was a nervous wreck before she got there. And I was so nervous the whole time I taught because I thought I was going to do something wrong or say something wrong. I was so happy when it was over and she said I did a great job! She complicated me and gave me great scores, I was so relieved. It was funny but after I had finished my first lesson the little girl in my RTI classroom said to me you are going to be a great teacher! This made me feel so good and she is super sweet. After my first lesson was done and over I said to myself, "alright I think I can do this".
Week 3
This is the first time I taught for the whole week. I was still kinda nervous to teach a little, but more in my 2nd grade classroom because I hadn't taught in there yet and I didn't know what Mrs. Parsons was going to think. This week we read Emperors Egg. We talked about the genre of the story and what this story was going to tell us. On Tuesday before we started reading the story I found a website online that had a live webcam of a zoo in Germany and we watched the penguins live, the children really enjoyed watching them swim and move around. I think put some students into a group and they had to act like they were zoologists. They had to pick what kind of penguin they wanted to research. Each student had their own part to reserach. One had to describe its physical features, one described the habitat they lived in, one describe how it defended itself, and the last student had to tell me what its predators are. The students have a rubric that they have to follow and convince me that this is a good penguin to add to the zoo. They will be working on this the next few weeks doing research when we have extra time. I am excited to see what they present to the class about their penguin.
Week 4
I have two weeks of teaching down, I am definetly feeling more comfortable about this, This week we are reading a story called Pine Park Mystery. The students had a lot of fun with this story. It was a mystery story where the students had to guess who was committing the crimes. Things were getting stolen in the park and it turns out it was a pet bird that had gotten lose was stealing shiny objects from the park. I had the students do a little craft with this activity. I gave each of them some clay and they had to mold the clay into a birds nest, I think gave them a peep to put in their birds nest with some jelly beans to look like eggs. This bird represented the bird that stole the Mayan bird that stole the objects from the park. The kids loved doing this activity. I then split the class into 2 different groups. They had to pick their parts fairly with everyone agreeing, that did not happen so well. Some kids got upset because they didn't want to go by the rules that the group had set. After everything was settled they practiced their parts for the readers theather that we put on at the end of the week. They did a really good job especially one of my little boys who was a tier 3 reader who had one of the main parts, he did such an awesome job. The students really enjoyed putting on the play and since they had put on reader's theater's before in this class they seemed like naturals.
Week 5
This week we read a story called Goodbye Curtis. I did not like this story and there was not much I could find for the students to really do with the story. The story had to do with a guy who had been a mailman and he was reflecting on his last day at the job. At the end of the story the neighbors threw him a party. I had the students create their own party invitation to give to Curtis for a goodbye party. They had to put where the party was at and when the party was. They got to decorate their invitations and colors them. I wish there would have been more I could have found for the students to do with this story, but since it was a short week we took our vocabulary and spelling tests early.
Week 6
The students read a story this week about a little boys personal narrative. I had the students create their own personal narratives about anything they wanted. After we read the story I had the students brainstorm about what they wanted to write about. After they had decided what they wanted to write about I gave them a worksheet that had beginning, middle, and end written on the paper. One that paper they wrote what happens in the beginning of their story, the middle and the end. Once they had that filled out with all of their ideas they wanted to write about I gave them a piece of paper for their first draft. After they wrote their first draft the next day they got out their papers and if they wanted to get with a partner I let them and they proofread their partners papers since they already knew what proofreading marks were and how to use them. One the last day of class that week we had the mobile lab, so I had the students type up their final drafts of their personal narratives. I gave the students a rubric to follow but some of them had a hard time writting more than one paragraph. I was happy they got to write and type their narratives. They did a good job. They loved being about to change the font and adding headings to their papers. It was fun. I have noticed we need to work on details.
Weeks 7
This was a fun week. We learned about China. Our Story was called China Town. I found a website online that give you an online tour of the San Diego China Town, so we did on the smartboard. The children loved it. We toured different buildings and looked at the architechure of them. We looked at their playground and school and compared them to ours. We toured some of their resturants and the food that is cooked there and talked about how their resturants are different then ours. We visted a bakery that made fortune cookies. They liked passing them to their friends and opening them to see what their fortunes were. While we made these I found a game online where they would come up and break up their own virtual fortune cookie and they had to read it to the class. So later in the week I had students make their own fortune cookies just out of paper, but they had to write their own fortune sentence to put in the cookie We toured their clothing stores and grocery stores and thier streets, there were so many pictures you could view, the kids loved talking about it and they were acting like they were there, it was so much fun. Since our story talks the Chinese New Year, we talked about what kind of animal year they were. We then watched a little YouTube video of a Chinese New Year and what they do to get ready for the parade and then the lights of the parade. The students liked to see the different light status that they make. We also talked about the different rituals they do for the Chinese New Year and how this compares to our New Year. Then at the end of the week I had the students make their own Chinese Lanterns and I took the students outside and played Chinese music and we had our own Chinese Lantern parade. This was a fun week and we learned so much by playing games, and crafts, and parades.
Week 8
This was a short week so we picked a story that would take 8 days to read The Beginners World Atlas. There were three days in this week. So I broke the story into different parts. The first part was the students read about views, standing in your back yard and looking. We talked about a birds eye view and then we talked about a map key. After we had read this first part of the story I had students create their own map of their backyard with a map key. Some of them drew their maps like they were just standing in the back yard looking and some of the students drew from a birds eye view. They all did a very good job at drawing their back yards with a mapkey. I was so proud they understood they concept of what a mapkey was. They next day we talked about an atlas and what it would show us, so before we read I had the students view google earth. We looked up different places around the world to few and different monuments. I asked them what type of view this was and was so proud they all remember a birds eye view. We looked up the school on google earth and zoomed in. We went to New York, Paris, Mt. Saint Helens, and Japan they loved taking a field trip around the world. We then read the section in our story of what a map and atlas tell us. This is a hard story but the kids are doing a great job at it.
Week 9
I only taught on Monday of this week, it was my last day. So we finished reading the story The Beginners World Atlas. This time we read about the continent North America. I asked the students how many contients there were and they all knew there were seven. Then one of my little boys says I know how many oceans there are and I asked him how many and if he could name them and he said four they are the Atlantic, Pacific, Arctic, and Indian. We have not gone over that, so I was amazed. After we had finished reading about the North America continent, I had one of the students take the authors chair and read about North American from a book that he had. We then talked about the US and how many states there were and if anyone could name capitals from other states, and little boy could name a few. After that it was time for me to leave. I was so sad and so was my teacher, we both almost cried. My students did not want me to leave. It was such a great experience and I wish I could go back for Student Teaching with the same teacher.