Two lesson plans

I thought that our last blog was supposed to be on finishing up the digital story so here is this one on the lesson plans.

We are supposed to write two lesson plans incorporating technology in a new creative out of the box way. This assignment is very hard especially when all semester we have been doing things in groups and now all of a sudden we are doing them alone and at the end and still supposed to be super creative. I can see that these lesson plans are going to be important for broadening our minds for our future classroom and students but i still believe it is difficult. After Thursday i am going to take a break from school and just enjoy the holidays with family and friends. Happy holidays and i hope you enjoy the break as well.

Last blog for the semester!!

This semester has been amazing and i would like to thank you for everything you have taught us to make us better teachers.

Now to the Digital Story, I am so glad that this is almost done there have been many bumps in the road to finishing this project and i will be truly glad when it is done. This is a very good assignment and i am glad and excited to see what the others have came up with as well. I am so excited for the next semester and being able to use all the knowledge and activities that i have been given.

DS blog after field

Going into this week of course everyone is stressing out about everything we have to turn in but the Digital story i am working on with my group is actually going on pretty well. We are working on making our credits page and then we just have to add the voices into our digital story plus just the few last minute adjustments and we are going to be done. These last key steps are going to make our DS really good and i believe educational to watch. I am proud of my group for settling our differences and coming together to finish this project. It is going to be really good. Now i just have to get through the next two weeks of school and be ready for the next sememster.

Last week of field post

So this week was really hard because i became really attatched to the kids and they all want me to miss school on Monday so i can go to their class one more time. :( It was such a great experience and the kids were truly amazing i don't think i could have had a more educational and amazing experience i really lucked out for my first field. The kids did a rendezvous this week and had such a good time playing the games and getting all ready for thanksgiving. It is going to be really hard coming back to school after this but i am just going to keep looking forward to my own class in the future :)

Week 3 blog

I can't believe it is almost over i really really don't want it to end!!! This week has gone by so fast we had a really good lesson on Monday where Ellie and I dressed up like Mountain men and brought other artifacts to the class to have a discussion it went really well. Then they did group work on a Mountain man and presented them to the class where afterwords we had a Reporter assessment and it was really funny to see the kids try and guess what character they were :) Today they did a huge mural on Mountain men, Spanish explorers, and Native Americans they had a good time and were really creative it was just a lot of fun and i am really excited to finish out next week with them.

Week 2 of field

Well this was a freaking crazy insane week. So Ellie got really sick probably the swine flu :( and so we had to just push back the lessons we had planned to teach and i had to go on the fly with some that i could teach by myself. Ah! but it went ok and the class understood and we still got through and did a bunch of things. Also on Tuesday they had their fall singing program for the parents it was really cute they all did really well. We also had a random fire drill in the middle of my lesson as well so it was just a random tough long week that was still really fun and i just can't believe how fast this is going!! In science we are also making brochures on the computer that is really cool because i have never made one on the computer before so it is working out pretty good and i am learning a ton and the kids are great. Next week here i come ha ha

Week 1 of field

Well this week was interesting i got to meet all the kids and just observe mostly for wed. and thurs. they are all really sweet and the class is mostly boys so when we did introductions they all wanted to know what football team we like of course it was the U :) they are getting ready for this big singing program they are performing on monday and tues and today after the practice it was just very chaotic and our supervising teacher got pretty upset. We got past that and had a veteran in the army come talk to the kids and then I taught them an art lesson which they really liked this week has gone by so fast and there is just so much to do in so little time but i am enjoying the experience and it is really fun.