I’m not really sure how to follow the what, so what and now what formula for this blog so I am going to just write what I observed, feel and think. I hope that is ok.
The first day of field the teacher was gone and had a sub. I didn’t notice much in the form of the students art work around the room. There were some pictures of a horn of plenty that the students had painted. As a fast finisher some of the students still had their horn of plenty that they could color. From what I have learned that isn’t really art. Maybe if the students had drawn or sketched their own picture, choosing their own median to work in. But I wasn’t there for the lesson so perhaps there was more to it.
On the second day, Thursday, the only art was during writing. The students have been learning how to write tall tales. They were suppose to do a pre-write and part of the pre-write was drawing a picture of their mane character. I hope they take it a step farther and completely illustrate their stories.
On the third day, Friday, the students practiced a song they learned that they will be performing on Monday for a school assembly and then again at UVU for the Veterans’ day program. The teacher had the words to the song pulled up on her smart board, she had them sing through the song, then she covered up some of the words and had them sing it again and the last time she had the smart board turned off and turned down the CD a little. The students sounded grate I just wish the CD didn’t have children singing on it. It would be nice to hear just my classes beautiful voices.
Next week my partner and I start teaching. On Tuesday we will be doing a lesson on the colonization of Jamestown. We plan on reading a small part of a book called Our Strange New Land. Then we are going to divide the class into groups and give them another excerpt from the book. The students will read and discuss it in their groups. Then we will divide the groups again so that each group has one person from each of the other groups in it. Each person will have a turn to tell their new group about the part that they read. Then the group will choose which three members will be characters from the book while the other three in the group will be reporters. The students will then take turns interviewing each other as the character from the book. We have a shy class so I hope we can pull this off. I’ll let you know next week how it went.
On Thursday we are teaching a lesson on the Mayflower voyage. We will start by reading the book On the Mayflower and then discuss it. I wrote some new lyrics to the tune I’ve Been Working on the Rail Road. The words are about some important thing s that happened on the ship. I hope that the song will make it easier for the students to remember some of the facts. We will also be discussing and learning the differences between rhythm, tempo and beat as we learn the song whole to part.
It should be a fun week filled with much learning for both us, our students and maybe even our cooperating teacher.
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