This was my last week in Ms. B's classroom. In the classroom the teacher has a reward system similar to other teachers. She has a behavior chart and each child has a clip on the side of it. If they are doing well then the teacher asks them to move their clip up. The clips stay in place till the next day and then a students hands out 'soar cards' to the students who earned them. The soar cards go in a bucket and then go to the office to be picked for "Soar Card Winner".
For related Arts on the first day I went to technology. The class was learning how to type using home row. This was the class's first lesson on typing using home row so I was glad I got to watch that and experience it. First the teacher showed the students a video/ power point about typing and what home row was. She had that students practice placing their hands on home row before getting started. Next she showed them some games they could play to begin to learn to type. The games were very helpful and the students picked up on it very easily.
When we got back to class the students sat down in their seats and waited for instructions. After every one got back to class one student passed out clocks to everyone. The students were going to be learning how to tell time. The students had learned to tell time before but only to the hour, now they would be learning how to tell time by 5's. For example 3:05. 3:10, 3:15 etc.
The next day I went to art. In art the students were finishing up their playgrounds. Students were adding shapes, water, grass, people, dogs, cats any thing and everything, they really wen t all out. This project seemed really fun for the students. At the end of the lass the students go to take their playgrounds home.
For my last day in the classroom I went to Art. The class I went with was a little behind, they were just starting to make their people for their play grounds. Some students weer still building the basics of their playgrounds. A couple students didn't write their names on their playgrounds and we couldn't find them so they had to start over completely. By the end most students were almost done with their playgrounds.
In the classroom on my last day there was a substitute teacher. So when we got back it was a little crazy, luckily however the teacher left instructions for the substitute. They began centers when we returned and I helped a few students out with math problems such as " There are 34 ears at a table, how many people are at the table?" I had about 5 minutes till I had to leave and the students "surprised" me cards and telling me thank you. The students lined up on the carpet and told me thank you. They each made a card for me thanking me and saying they would miss me. They were very sweet.
I am grateful for my experience in this grade level. I learned a lot about how children this age act and also how they interact with each other.
Friday, November 22, 2013
Friday, November 15, 2013
Reflection #7
In Ms.B's classroom this week everything was seemingly normal. In the beginning of class the students walk in with the teacher and then they unpack their backpacks. They get their home work out of their bags and turn it in. next they should switch out their books. In the classroom they are trying to so a 100 book challenge. So every day students read a new book and try to complete the challenge. After they get a book they are supposed to sit at their desk and read quietly until the morning announcements come on. After the morning announcements they go to related arts.
I decided to try something new this week and go to a related arts that I had never been to, Technology. Technology was interesting but also very fun. I could tell the children liked it a lot and were very into it. The teacher was also very nice. In technology the students came in and knew exactly what to do. They went to their computers and got started on a game. This was kind of like a warm up to let the kids get all their gitters out of them. They played games for about 15 minutes. Next they went and sat on the carpet at the front of the classroom. This is something they don't do that often. They normally stay at their seats and the teacher uses a software that lets her operate their computers from her own computer. While they were on the carpet the teacher explained what they would be doing that day, typing games!!
The students went to their computers and began playing the games. They were only allowed to play certain games. I had to help out a few students because they were on the wrong game or they had put the difficulty to high and was not doing well on the game.
As soon as the entire class got back from related arts they started math. They went right into centers. They were the same centers as last week except that instead of students working at their desk they were working at the big desk in the back with Ms. B. I decided to sit and work with a group of students on a game. I saw there was only five students and they had to be in pairs so I partnered with the one student left out. The game was you had 18 chips and I had to take as many away as I wanted (you would be turned away) and then you had to figure out how many chips I took away. We played the game together for the entire time(15 minutes)
The next day I went to Art for related arts. The class that I was with was really behind and I had to help them make geometric forms out of paper. The shapes were; a cube, cone, pyramid, and cylinder. When they all finished with making the shapes they wrote their names on them and turned them in. By the time they finished there was maybe 5-10 mins left so the students got to go to centers. Center include; computers, free drawing, tracing and playing with clay.
When we came back from the related arts the class began working on math. The class is working on even and odd numbers. Ms.B asked the class questions about even and odd and even gave real life examples. She asked the class If there were 11 students in a classroom and the teacher told them all to find a partner would each person have a partner? She had the class figure that out and then she demonstrated it with 11 actual students.
The last day of the week that I was there I went to Art again. I was with a different class this day so we were working on something different then what we were working on the day before. This day the students were working on finishing up their playgrounds. (The shapes they made the day before are for the playground) This class was almost done with their playgrounds. The teacher however wanted more. She wanted the students to put people in the playgrounds. She also wanted them to have a sign (enter/exit or hours of operation). I really liked this project for the children, it gave them creative freedom. although they all started out with the same basic shapes no ones playground/ skate park/ water park looked the same.
In the classroom this day we did something that I had never done before. I knew the class had done it before but I hadn't. We did an experiment called "How Many Pockets?" Each person had to count their pockets and got a snap-cube for each of the pockets that they had. After all the pockets were counted, everybody had to find a partner that together would add up to 10. for example I had 2 pockets and Ms. B had 8 pockets so we partnered up and made 10. Almost everyone had a partner except two people. In total the amount of pockets we had were 98. Previously when they did this there was only 58 and 69. We assumed that we had more pockets this time because of our jackets. (It was very chilly that day almost everyone had a jacket).
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The students went to their computers and began playing the games. They were only allowed to play certain games. I had to help out a few students because they were on the wrong game or they had put the difficulty to high and was not doing well on the game.
As soon as the entire class got back from related arts they started math. They went right into centers. They were the same centers as last week except that instead of students working at their desk they were working at the big desk in the back with Ms. B. I decided to sit and work with a group of students on a game. I saw there was only five students and they had to be in pairs so I partnered with the one student left out. The game was you had 18 chips and I had to take as many away as I wanted (you would be turned away) and then you had to figure out how many chips I took away. We played the game together for the entire time(15 minutes)
The next day I went to Art for related arts. The class that I was with was really behind and I had to help them make geometric forms out of paper. The shapes were; a cube, cone, pyramid, and cylinder. When they all finished with making the shapes they wrote their names on them and turned them in. By the time they finished there was maybe 5-10 mins left so the students got to go to centers. Center include; computers, free drawing, tracing and playing with clay.
When we came back from the related arts the class began working on math. The class is working on even and odd numbers. Ms.B asked the class questions about even and odd and even gave real life examples. She asked the class If there were 11 students in a classroom and the teacher told them all to find a partner would each person have a partner? She had the class figure that out and then she demonstrated it with 11 actual students.
The last day of the week that I was there I went to Art again. I was with a different class this day so we were working on something different then what we were working on the day before. This day the students were working on finishing up their playgrounds. (The shapes they made the day before are for the playground) This class was almost done with their playgrounds. The teacher however wanted more. She wanted the students to put people in the playgrounds. She also wanted them to have a sign (enter/exit or hours of operation). I really liked this project for the children, it gave them creative freedom. although they all started out with the same basic shapes no ones playground/ skate park/ water park looked the same.
In the classroom this day we did something that I had never done before. I knew the class had done it before but I hadn't. We did an experiment called "How Many Pockets?" Each person had to count their pockets and got a snap-cube for each of the pockets that they had. After all the pockets were counted, everybody had to find a partner that together would add up to 10. for example I had 2 pockets and Ms. B had 8 pockets so we partnered up and made 10. Almost everyone had a partner except two people. In total the amount of pockets we had were 98. Previously when they did this there was only 58 and 69. We assumed that we had more pockets this time because of our jackets. (It was very chilly that day almost everyone had a jacket).
Multicultural Children's Books
Multicultural books are necessary to have in a classroom. They are needed so that children know that there are other types of children in the world and that being different doesn't make the person bad or weird. Multicultural books helps children understand that we are all the same despite what we look like.
I choose an assortment of different types of multicultural books; Latino, Asian, African American, and also Native American. It is good to expose children to many different types of ethnicity , especially if they are growing up in a community where it is mainly just one ethnic group. Children may not always get to see all the different types of ethnicity so books are a good way to expose them to many different kinds.
I choose an assortment of different types of multicultural books; Latino, Asian, African American, and also Native American. It is good to expose children to many different types of ethnicity , especially if they are growing up in a community where it is mainly just one ethnic group. Children may not always get to see all the different types of ethnicity so books are a good way to expose them to many different kinds.
Monday, November 11, 2013
Reflection #6
I couldn't be in Ms. B's classroom on the first day this week. They went on a field trip and I couldn't go with them so I went into a fist grade classroom. The first grade classroom was so much different then the 2nd grade classroom I am normally in. The teacher is different, the curriculum is different, and especially the students are different.
This was my second week in Ms. B's classroom. It was a pretty ordinary week. The children start every day the same, they get into class, turn in their homework, change their books and unpack their backpacks. After they are done with that they sit and read at their desk. The morning news comes on and they watch that till it ends. After it ends they line up for Related Arts. On the second day this week I went with the children to art. In art they were painting clay frogs. The teacher handed each student their frog and the table captain got paint, paint brushes and water for the table. The students began painting their frogs as soon as they got them.
After the students were done the frogs had to be wrapped so they could be safely taken home. I helped wrap the frogs. The class was well behaved and lined up for wrapping if there was more then one or two people there. As the students and I were leaving the teacher thanked me and was really appreciative of the help I gave her today.
The next day the same routine happened. I went to art again too. The same project was going on but with a different class. I helped out in the same way but was a little more efficient since I didn't need much instruction today. This group of kids was less well behaved then the children yesterday. This class was very rowdy and couldn't seem to settle down. After they finished painting their frogs they didn't line up at the back table they just bunched around and it was very chaotic. When it was time for the kids to line up it took them a very long time to clean up and get in line. In the process of doing this 5+ kids dropped their frog multiple times.
When the children got back from R.A, they normally do math on the carpet, but today they got white boards and markers out and stayed at their desks. The teacher asked them where they were on a scale of 0-4 on how well they can solve addition and subtraction problems with out knowing the original value. For example If I have 8 pencils and you have 4 more then me how many do you have? Most students were about a 1 or 2 on the scale. After they worked out a problem together on the white boards they split up into centers. One center was a math game, another is working at their desk on notebook pages, another was working on handout pages. This was my first time seeing the children work in math centers and I am glad I got to see it.
I hope I get to see more of the centers in the coming weeks. I also want to have more responsibility in the classroom like grading papers or tests.
This was my second week in Ms. B's classroom. It was a pretty ordinary week. The children start every day the same, they get into class, turn in their homework, change their books and unpack their backpacks. After they are done with that they sit and read at their desk. The morning news comes on and they watch that till it ends. After it ends they line up for Related Arts. On the second day this week I went with the children to art. In art they were painting clay frogs. The teacher handed each student their frog and the table captain got paint, paint brushes and water for the table. The students began painting their frogs as soon as they got them.
After the students were done the frogs had to be wrapped so they could be safely taken home. I helped wrap the frogs. The class was well behaved and lined up for wrapping if there was more then one or two people there. As the students and I were leaving the teacher thanked me and was really appreciative of the help I gave her today.
The next day the same routine happened. I went to art again too. The same project was going on but with a different class. I helped out in the same way but was a little more efficient since I didn't need much instruction today. This group of kids was less well behaved then the children yesterday. This class was very rowdy and couldn't seem to settle down. After they finished painting their frogs they didn't line up at the back table they just bunched around and it was very chaotic. When it was time for the kids to line up it took them a very long time to clean up and get in line. In the process of doing this 5+ kids dropped their frog multiple times.
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I hope I get to see more of the centers in the coming weeks. I also want to have more responsibility in the classroom like grading papers or tests.
Friday, November 8, 2013
Reflection #5
This week I began observing a new classroom. I am now in Ms. B's 2nd grade class. I will be in her class for the next 4 weeks. I am excited to learn about how their scheduled works and all about the different students and their personalities.
The first day I was in the classroom it was interesting. I had no Idea how their scheduled was or how the students would react to me being in the classroom. When I walked in I was greeted by multiple students all filled with questions about why I was there and what I would be doing. It was really nice that they were so interested in me and also gave me a good understanding of how their personalities were.
In the morning the students unpack and read quietly at their desks. A little after they get into class they have to go straight to Related Arts. Ms. B's class gets split up and goes with other classrooms to their R.A. I went with a few students from Ms. B's class and an entire other classroom to Music. There the students were able to sing and play instruments.
After students get back from R.A. they go to the carpet and learn math. They were learning about ways to add to 15 using 'like doubles" for example 8+7=15.
The second day I was in the classroom I went to Art with the students. In art the students were making geometric shapes out of paper. They made cubes, cones, cylinders, and pyramids. The teacher demonstrated it for the class and then let them try it for themselves. Many students had a difficult time creating the shapes and needed a lot of instructions.
The third day the students didn't go to R.A. instead they prepared themselves for the Hat Parade. Each classroom choose a theme and then the students made hats representing that theme. All the students then marched around the school in a Hat Parade showing off their hats. Ms. B's class's theme was the human body. Each students hat was a different body part and had vocabulary words on it about the body part. After the parade the students came back to the classroom and watched a video about the digestive system and the human body.
Friday, November 1, 2013
Multiple Intelligence
Interpersonal Intelligence (People Smart)
Interpersonal Intelligence is the ability to interact with other people effectively. When you have Interpersonal Intelligence you have good verbal and nonverbal communication skills. You are also very sensitive to other peoples moods however you can also entertain people from multiple perspectives. People with this intelligence are able to understand others feelings and motives.
I took a multiple intelligence quiz that determined that I was Interpersonal. I would definitely agree with this outcome. I am the type of person who likes to get along with other people. I also love talking to other people and having conversations with them. I would love to have a class where there is lots of discussion and talking. Peoples emotions effect me a lot too. If someone is feeling bad or low I would also feel bad. Even if the reason for their sadness isn't my fault I would still feel bad. I would have to try to help them. I would want them to talk to me and let me help them with what ever problem they have.
This intelligence effects me in my learning in a couple ways. First, I love to talk. And if you have been to school you know that talking during class or while the teacher is talking is very bad and frowned upon. I would always get in trouble for talking to my classmates about things other then the topic. Another way this effects me is because I am affected by others people emotions this can have a negative effect on my school work. If a person I know isn't feeling well that day or is angry or sad then I too will feel that way, or feel bad for not being able to help them.
Bodily-Kinesthetic Intelligence (Body Smart)
Bodily-Kinesthetics is the ability to have multiple physical skills. With this intelligence you have an excellent sense of timing. You also seek perfection in skills of mind and body union. People with Kinesthetic intelligence are most often athletes, dancers, surgeons, or craftspeople.
After taking the quiz I ranked second highest in Kinesthetic Intelligence. I am on multiple sports teams and I have a daily exercise routine so I would agree that Kinesthetic fits me well. I love to play sports, even if I'm not that good at them. I also love to run and exercise. I am not very coordinated however I always am looking to improve upon my skills. I also like hands on activities. I can't stand to sit still for very long. If I am in a classroom and I have to just sit and listen with no involvement then I would probably go crazy.
This intelligence effects my learning because of inability to sit still. Many classes you can't get up and walk around and interact. So that leaves it to just sitting and listening and forcing my self not to go crazy. I will move my legs, tap my pen/pencil, doodle, anything to keep my self occupied.
Visual/Spatial Intelligence (Picture Smart)
Visual Intelligence is having the ability to think in three-dimensions. When you are Visually intelligent you are most likely fascinated with mazes and jigsaw puzzles. You also draw or day dream a lot. Your intelligences would be mental imagery, spatial reasoning, image manipulation, graphic and artistic skills and an active imagination. People with this type of intelligence are often sailors, pilots, sculptors, painters and architects.
This is the area that I scored the lowest in. I normally cant differentiate between north, south, east, and west and now it makes sense because I am not a spatial learner. I am easily tricked and confused my image manipulation. That is one of my weakest points in spatial learning. I can see why I was so low in this area, I get lost very easily and I am not artistic at all. I cant sculpt or think of things in three dimension. If something is two dimensions then that is all I see, I cant imagine it as anything else.
Because I scored the lowest in this area I would probably have a hard time teaching this subject to students. To teach this subject I would probably do a lot of hands on activities involving three- dimensions. For example I would let students make sculptures out of clay or I would let them make them geometric shapes out of paper.
Intrapersonal Intelligence (Self Smart)
Intrapersonal Intelligence is being able to understand yourself, your thoughts and your feelings. Its being able to know your self and to use that knowledge about yourself in planning your future and the direction you want to go. Intrapersonal intelligent people are often psychologist, spiritual leaders, and philosophers. Intrapersonal people young adults may be shy or timid. However they are well aware of their own feelings and are self motivated.
This is the area that I scored second lowest in. I am not a shy person. I enjoy working with other people and talking a lot. I would say that I am in touch with my feelings how ever expressing them is the hard part for me. I have a hard time finding words that fit well with my feelings. I am not self motivated though. I need someone behind me pushing me to go further and to do more. I can normally do well by myself but if you want exceptional work then you need to push me and tell me what you expect from me.
I assume that I would have a difficult time teaching intrapersonal ways because I myself am not intrapersonal. I try to teach it by letting students work individually. I would have students do activities alone. Instead of doing group project I students would be doing them solo. This would give them the chance to see hwta they are capable of.
Bodily Kinesthetic
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