Friday, April 26, 2013
Final Thoughts
Wow! I can hardly believe my time in the school is almost over! Today was my last day to teach my unit. I really had a lot of fun teaching measurement to my students and they really seemed to enjoy the activities. I learned a lot from this experience. It really helped me to see how it is in the classroom. I also learned some new ways to help with classroom management. I was amazed at how much the students have learned over these past two weeks. Today we reviewed and I was so pleased to hear them popping off answers, explaining things, and making connections to the real world. I will really miss them! They are great students! My classroom teacher is also great! She allowed me to do all kinds of great hands on activities even if they were a bit messy! I really enjoyed this field experience and I' m glad that I have one more week to spend with my students! I hope everyone else is having a great time too! I'm excited to hear about everyone's field experience and to see everyone one again soon!
Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Measurement Unit
Hello everyone!
I hope everyone is having a great time in their field experience class! Due to MCT2 testing I bumped my unit up a week. I started the unit Monday. Everything is going really well, so far we have learned length in the English standard and metric system. We have been doing a lot of measurement in the classroom to help us understanding how important measurement is and how much we use measurement in the real world. The students really enjoyed measuring each others heights and recording the information as a bar graph on a poster board. But most of all they enjoyed measuring my height and realizing that they were as tall as me even though they are fourth graders and i'm an adult! I don't think they will ever forget that lesson or that they were as tall as the student teacher!! :) For the rest of this week we will be learning about weight and capacity with some fun hands-on activities and experiments! I'm excited to see how much the students will learn from these experiences. I can't wait to hear about everyone's experiences and unit ideas in the weeks to come! Hope you fun!
I hope everyone is having a great time in their field experience class! Due to MCT2 testing I bumped my unit up a week. I started the unit Monday. Everything is going really well, so far we have learned length in the English standard and metric system. We have been doing a lot of measurement in the classroom to help us understanding how important measurement is and how much we use measurement in the real world. The students really enjoyed measuring each others heights and recording the information as a bar graph on a poster board. But most of all they enjoyed measuring my height and realizing that they were as tall as me even though they are fourth graders and i'm an adult! I don't think they will ever forget that lesson or that they were as tall as the student teacher!! :) For the rest of this week we will be learning about weight and capacity with some fun hands-on activities and experiments! I'm excited to see how much the students will learn from these experiences. I can't wait to hear about everyone's experiences and unit ideas in the weeks to come! Hope you fun!
Tuesday, April 9, 2013
Field Experience Reflection
Wow! Time is flying. I can't believe this is my second week in the schools. Things are going great! I have a 4th grade inclusion class and there is never, ever a dull moment! I taught my first prior lesson Monday on multiplication. I used one of the games that we learned in Mrs. Fancher's class, multiplication wrestling. The students really enjoyed the game and did not want to stop playing it. I teach my next lesson tomorrow and i'm very excited about it. This lesson will be on rounding and estimation. I have also identified and have started working on my unit topic. The topic is measurement. However, because the students are so busy studying for the MCT2 test I plan to make the unit a geography theme to incorporate some social studies into the class. I'm very excited about the unit and all the great information I have found. For anyone else that maybe working on measurement I found this great website. Its actually a blog post of a teacher. She has really great activities that can be used to teach all different types of measurement. The website is http://nerdyteacherconfessions.edublogs.org/tag/4th-grade-measurement-unit/. I hope everyone else is having a great experience in their class as well!
Tuesday, April 2, 2013
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Sale Week-Bahamas
www.bahamas4kids.com
This website really helped us in planning for Sale Week. The website has many different facts and information about the Bahamas. The site has different categories to choose from such as games and activities, Bahamas music, stories about the Bahamas, and Bahamas history. Under each category you can find interesting facts and learn about the Bahamas past and present. The site also tells about famous people from the Bahamas. The website tells about different festivals that are held in the Bahamas and how these festivals came to be. For example, the Junkanoo Festival. This is a celebration held around Christmas and New Years. If you actually want to see the festival in action just head on over to the Bahamas room Thursday and we will show you how it's done!:) So if you ever need to teach about the Bahamas keep this helpful website in mind. It will really help you out!
This website really helped us in planning for Sale Week. The website has many different facts and information about the Bahamas. The site has different categories to choose from such as games and activities, Bahamas music, stories about the Bahamas, and Bahamas history. Under each category you can find interesting facts and learn about the Bahamas past and present. The site also tells about famous people from the Bahamas. The website tells about different festivals that are held in the Bahamas and how these festivals came to be. For example, the Junkanoo Festival. This is a celebration held around Christmas and New Years. If you actually want to see the festival in action just head on over to the Bahamas room Thursday and we will show you how it's done!:) So if you ever need to teach about the Bahamas keep this helpful website in mind. It will really help you out!
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Helpful Educational Info
www.thefurtrapper.com/trailoftears.htm
www.nationatlas.gov/printable
Since Mississippi History is taught in the fourth grade I thought I would share this great website I found while working on my social studies lesson plan. This website gives lots of information about the Choctaw Indians as well as other Indian tribes from Mississippi. The website shows pictures and gives detailed information about each Indian tribe. As a teacher you can use this information to help you prepare for your lesson, or allow the students to get on this site and do some research about the different Native American Indians from Mississippi. The other website above is another great website for social studies. Teaches can use this site to get free printable maps. The site offers a wide variety of different maps such as a map with just the states, a map with the capitals, or a map with states, capitals, and cities. This site also offers map printable with blanks on them. This gives the students the opportunity to write in the states, capitals, cities, or rivers on the maps. I also thought everyone did a great job on their lessons for socials studies. If I ever need to teach these topics I will be using y' all's lessons!!!
www.nationatlas.gov/printable
Since Mississippi History is taught in the fourth grade I thought I would share this great website I found while working on my social studies lesson plan. This website gives lots of information about the Choctaw Indians as well as other Indian tribes from Mississippi. The website shows pictures and gives detailed information about each Indian tribe. As a teacher you can use this information to help you prepare for your lesson, or allow the students to get on this site and do some research about the different Native American Indians from Mississippi. The other website above is another great website for social studies. Teaches can use this site to get free printable maps. The site offers a wide variety of different maps such as a map with just the states, a map with the capitals, or a map with states, capitals, and cities. This site also offers map printable with blanks on them. This gives the students the opportunity to write in the states, capitals, cities, or rivers on the maps. I also thought everyone did a great job on their lessons for socials studies. If I ever need to teach these topics I will be using y' all's lessons!!!
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Neat Social Studies Website
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/
This is a really great website that helps students explore social studies. On this website there are different categories such as, Meet Amazing Americans, Jump Back In Time, Explore The States, Join America At Play, and See, Hear, and Sing. Under each of these are more categories to choose from. I chose the Meet Amazing Americans category. Under this category you can learn about leaders, Presidents, adventurers and explores, inventors, musicians, and writers just to name a few. I chose the adventurers and explorers. Then I chose Amelia Earhart. The site asks a quiz question then gives you the answer. Then the story and facts about Amelia Earhart came up. It was very interesting learning different facts. Many of these facts I did not know. Also, this site showed a timeline of the person chosen. Not only did the timeline have events in that person's life, but also other world events going on at the same time. I think this is a great and fun website that would help students explore our history in a fun and interesting way. I think this would be a good computer center activity, where students can explore and learn facts about the history of our world.
This is a really great website that helps students explore social studies. On this website there are different categories such as, Meet Amazing Americans, Jump Back In Time, Explore The States, Join America At Play, and See, Hear, and Sing. Under each of these are more categories to choose from. I chose the Meet Amazing Americans category. Under this category you can learn about leaders, Presidents, adventurers and explores, inventors, musicians, and writers just to name a few. I chose the adventurers and explorers. Then I chose Amelia Earhart. The site asks a quiz question then gives you the answer. Then the story and facts about Amelia Earhart came up. It was very interesting learning different facts. Many of these facts I did not know. Also, this site showed a timeline of the person chosen. Not only did the timeline have events in that person's life, but also other world events going on at the same time. I think this is a great and fun website that would help students explore our history in a fun and interesting way. I think this would be a good computer center activity, where students can explore and learn facts about the history of our world.
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