What a blur this past week has been!
I did my second read aloud and activity and it went very well! We discussed Cause and Effect and created a chart from If You Give a Pig a Party to outline cause/effect. This is prep work for a larger Ozo Bot activity they are doing for the representative coming from the Minnesota Department of Education. This visit from the Department of Ed happens our Monday back to class, after our field experience is over. I saw them prepping for MCA testing and then they took part of the MCA Reading test this week. We weren't allowed to be in the room for that, because it requires completing training, that we didn't do.
I led station learning in measurement and money. The students learned about function tables and temperature as well. We were going to start double-digit multiplication, but we ran out of time.
We had a really fun Thursday this week. The students brought something to share with the class. They earned a popcorn party. We got to see a performance by Third Coast Percussion. We went to the library. We also had our Ozo Bot and ELA lesson. We watched If You Give a Mouse an iPhone and the students had to retell the story (sequencing) and create an Ozo Bot path to retell the story. This lesson leads into what they're doing next week, for the Department of Ed visit, when they write their own original story with an Ozo Bot path.
This week also included a lot of tips, questions/answers, and advice, from my field experience teacher. She's been sharing a lot of aspects to teaching--things I hadn't even thought about--from organizational strategies, to district politics, to classroom management, to curriculum enrichment, to balancing work and family life. I have a lot of mixed feelings about being done with this field experience. I look forward to getting to the end of this semester and the earlier mornings, but I'm sad to be at the end of my time in this classroom, with these students, and this teacher. I've learned so much--and I have a lot more to learn!
It sounds like you had a really fun week! It is terrific that you are learning new tips and getting great advice from your CT. I hope you have a great last week in your classroom!
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