We just finished our second week teaching second graders at Hudson Elementary school. This weeks focus was to integrate drama into our lesson. We started off by reading a book about how to recycle and in this book, there was a lot of examples of household items we can recycle every day. Some of these included plastic bottles, newspaper, cardboard tubes, paper, and so many more. Next, we laid out a bunch of items that our group brought as examples of recyclable materials and things that we could use to make our puppets. We talked through each of the materials and what they could be reused as. We then introduced the reader's theater to the kids and told them we would be creating puppets to go with each of their characters they were assigned. The kids really liked being able to create their puppets out of the materials we had available to them like egg cartons, newspaper, pipe cleaners, cardboard boxes, tape, plastic bags, and lots of other stuff. Their puppets turned out really w
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Today Brooke and I finished tutoring our student at Cunningham Elementary for the fourth week. This week went better than last week, and I think a lot of it had to deal with her now being used to both of us being there and working with her. Last week was the first time we were both tutoring her and I think now, the familiarity with both of us helped this tutoring session to go a lot smoother. We started with reading the book Animal Strike at the Zoo by Karma Wilson. Brooke asked her if she had read this book before, and she hadn't, so that was nice to be able to go through something she hadn't already read, because it helped her keep her attention towards the book better. We first walked through the front cover, and were looking at what a 'strike' meant. She seemed to understand this word and we talked about how it meant the animals were going to go on strike in this book. Since we have found that the best way to keep her attention while reading a book, and the way
Week three is complete! Today was a little different than the past two weeks because one of my classmates, Brooke, was co-teaching with me. We paired up, so now it is the two of us and our student for the remaining weeks. Our second grader was a little thrown off by this and we think it had to do with there being someone new there. It took us a little bit to get into the swing of things, but we ended up starting off with the concept of print book and going through that. This started out a little rough because she didn't want to go at the pace of how the text evaluation was supposed to be recorded. It took us a while to get on the same page and have her slow down to answer the questions we were asking about the text. Once she began to answer, we were able to get through the book with her answering all of the questions according to what we were asking. After the concept of print book, we moved onto introducing the book for the week about animals that we were going to read. W
Another opportunity to teach! New school, more second graders! This experience was one of three where myself and 4 others in my class will have the opportunity to go into Hudson Elementary school and teach a group of 8 second graders about helping the environment. We will be incorporating topics like visual arts, like we did this week, drama, and music along with various others. This is a great opportunity for the kids to learn in new ways and it gives them a chance to get into smaller groups and have a more one-on-one approach to learning. To begin, we introduced ourselves and all said something we like to do outside/ something we do that deals with the environment. This was our "get to know you" activity, and it allowed all of us to share something we do within the environment. Next, we read the book The Lorax by Dr.Seuss. This is a classic book by Dr. Seuss that has a lot to say about taking care of our environment. The second graders had watched the movie already, so
This was my second week tutoring my second grader at Cunningham School for Excellence. Overall it went very well! When I first got there on Thursday morning, my student was very excited to see me and to go out into the hallway to start reading. We talked for a little bit at first and she told me her birthday was coming up and how she was excited for it. It was good to see her more comfortable and talkative and she was asking questions about what book we were going to read next! To start, we went through the alphabet letters and my student was able to identify them all and the sounds that they make. This was very easy for her to go through but did help her identify the specific sound that belongs to each letter. I think this assessment was very good for her as an introduction activity/ warm up. We then looked at the next book we were going to read, being Sheep in a Jeep by Nancy Shaw. We began by taking a picture walk, which I think was a good start because she told me and described w