Hello Everyone, and sorry I have not completed my "where memories are made part two". The past week and a half in the classroom, I have become very busy.
My unit on magnets is going great! We will finish that up this Friday. Yesterday we completed an activity, Watch Objects Move! We had a paper clip, scissors, a nail and a fastener as objects. Materials we moved through were a napkin, paper cup, piece of paper and a thin book. Each table or students had the opportunity to experiment with every object moving through every material. Outcomes: The students said it was hard to move the scissor through any of the objects just because of their mass (yes this was one child's answer, they connected mass to the scissors--every teachers dream to get such a perfect answer!) The students also concluded that the napkin was a difficult material to have things move through because the napkin was not sturdy like the rest. Overall, I have enjoyed this unit on magnets and I was able to include a lot of hands on activities for the students which I think has really helped in their understand of magnets.
In math this week, we started Weight, Mass, Capacity and Volume. I have struggled with this a bit, because we do not have enough scales for every child, or even every table group. We have one per classroom which makes teaching these topics a little more challenging. However, I have been very creative in tweaking the lessons in the book to make-do with what materials I do have! Hopefully this unit will be a success!!
Our class book on poems is slowly but surely coming along! We only have about 15 minutes every few days, but that's alright, we are working with the time we find! I have taught the students acrostic, cinquain, and shape poems. The students are allowed to write about whatever topic they wish, as long as they know a lot about the topic! I am finding that the students are having trouble relating the lines in their poem to the topic they chose. So today we brainstormed a list of 5 things each student is interested in, or something they enjoy doing. Then they had to pick on and write an acrostic poem about it, and pick another and write a cinquain. This helped some students, and others are still not grasping the concepts as well, but we will keep working at it and finish our class book!!!
In closing, I must say that through this internship, I am learning more than how to teach science, reading, math, classroom management or effective consequences. I already knew how to do those things coming into this experience because Ashland has prepared me to be successful at all of that. I am learning what is really means to be a teacher. I am experiencing parent/teacher conferences and the battles you may face with some parents. How to catch a child up in classwork that has been absent for a week and a half and has little to no support at home. What to do when a parent disagrees with how you teach or your homework policy. And most importantly, in my mind, how to treat every child equally. And I am learning that it is not easy to do! Teachers make a lot of accommodations for their students and parents, which in turns creates a lot more work for the teacher. I am also learning how important it is to have a support system of teachers and administrators who will be by your side during whatever issues or concerns you may have within your days.
I hope to add pictures of Disney soon and tell you all about our 14 hour day there =)
Dove Message of the Day: Happiness looks great on you!
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