Yes, that is correct! We had to work on President's Day. The district gave us off Friday, for Rodeo Day, and we had to go to school today! Oh well, still a 3 day weekend, and my what a beautiful weekend it was! 80 degrees and bright sunshine everyday! Tiffany and I had a relaxing weekend of laying out and lesson planning! I am still trying to think of when I want to start my unit. I am teaching every subject but writing, and need to figure out when would be a good time to begin a unit, since we are in the middle of units now, and I also can't decide what subject I want to focus my unit on. I love math, but science is usually a good subject to do units in, however we are still in the middle of the Force and Motion unit and we will be on that for another 15 or so days. After that, its the Human Body(doesn't sound too interesting)--I guess since this is an internship, I might as well go for the more difficult topic and learn from it! So as of now, that is my plan of action! I need to start researching what to teach second graders about the Human Body...I have my work cut out for me!
Today in school we did an awesome force and motion game called The Lid Skid! Its exactly what it sounds like, you need a lid and a yard stick! You measure one meter, put down a piece of tape as a marker, measure two meters, put another tape and then four meters! Everyone starts at the same line. You have to push the lid to the first tape line (1 meter) then go back to the starting line, and push to the second tape line (2 meters) and finally the last tape line (4 meters) we then talked about force and what kind of force you gave to the lid to get it to go to the first line, second and last! The kids had a blast trying to see who could get the lid the closest to the line! Overall i think it was successful and meaningful for the students!
After that science fun, they asked, "Miss. Lang can we play tug of war again!" because on Friday at the end of the day, I allowed them to play tug of war to experience pull! Again, they loved it because to them its like playing a game, but once we came back inside the discussion about pull and force was so good and everyone was trying to talk at once they were so excited! So if the students have a good week, I may allow them to play again! =) A little incentive to do well never hurts!
The rest of the week is pretty normal. In math we started talking about centimeters. We already covered inches, feet and yards. The kids also love Ticket Into Math which I created to start each math class! If I forget to start math class without a ticket into math problem, they always remind me! I hope that means they like it!
Well, off to watch some TV with the family and Tiff! Have a fabulous day!
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