last week in the class

well the students really seem to enjoy every time that technology is used in the classroom, even just my listening to books on cd and playing the vocabulary computer programs, i think that it allows them to come out of their norm a little bit but they can still take a lot from it. my partner used her Google earth presentation on bats all around the world in our class this past week and i'm hoping that we can get everything else together for our down by the bay stuff by the end of the week. Her bats presentation went really well overall, there were some technological issues, but the kids seemed to really respond well to it all. they got really excited when everything was zooming in onto the world etc. it was fun to see their eyes light up because something was being taught in a little different way. It's been a really rewarding experience in the classroom, i've seen how my recording hobby can really play into the classroom and i'm looking forward to being abe to do it again.

Week Number Three

This week was totally fun because we decided to involve technology into the classroom! The students are doing a unit on Rhyming and they were reading the book, "down by the bay" Lynn and i thought it would be really fun to actually record the rhymes that they made up in the lyric part of the song as individuals and then also record the whole class singing the song. I bought some recording equipment and took them into a back room using the free download program, "Audacity" and recorded their voices saying their rhymes and then got the whole class to sing it while i played and sang the song with them with my guitar. We are going to be putting together a slide show with the pictures they drew and them holding watermelon's too. I'm really exctied to see how it all turns out!

sub teaching

So this week we had a couple of subs in the classroom it was actually a great experience for us cohorts because we were able to have the whole class to ourselves. Before the cohort i felt a little intimidated by the idea of teaching a class, i didn't know how long it would take to be able to gain control of them. I am grateful for an aweosme teacher that has set forth aweosme management skills that makes it easier for us to control them, she shows great love for her students and it makes a big difference when there are subs because they understand that they have something to live up to when she gets back. I hope that my class and I develop the same relationship of trust and understanding that Mrs. Foote has with her students.

First Week of Practicum

Man did I ever learn a lot in my practicum this first week. I am in a first grade class and it's amazing to see this teacher just have these six year old kids around her finger. She has an amazing management plan her ideas are so simple but in the same way so genius. I love that when they are walking in the halls they have "bubbles" in their mouths and arms tucked in so that they can't touch anything or say anything. Halloween was a really fun time too we were able to see the kids enjoying having fun and the teacher even got to integrate some writing and read aloud's into the class too. Here is a picture of us on Halloween that i hope you enjoy!