So when we began the semester we were asked to go into the school for the week before class started. It was really interesting to see all the preparation work before the students arrived and how the teachers get ready. I am working in a Kindergarten classroom with a really great teacher Mrs. A and a awesome Teaching Assistant, Mrs. S. Kindergarten had an open house during that week of preparation and it was great meeting the students then. It will probably help a lot when I have my own classroom for me to have seen that week of preparation so I'm really glad we got to do that.
I had to teacher three lessons this semester to be observed, twice by the University Supervisor and once by the classroom teacher. My first lesson was a math problem solving lesson. The students had to graph skittles by their colors. The lesson went really well and my supervisor loved it! Here are some pictures from it:
My second lesson was observed by my classroom teacher and it was a science lesson. The students were working on their 5 senses and I taught the lesson on smell. I prepared 4 smells for the students to smell and they had to use their noses to smell the smells and then come up with guesses on what they thought the smell was. The students had a great time with it and my teacher loved it. Unfortunately I forgot to take my camera off of black and white setting so the pictures aren't in color but they still look fine. Here are some pictures:
The third lesson was a technology lesson. My lesson was a conclusion lesson on nursery rhymes. I used videos from online to play the rhymes and then the students and I found and matched the rhyming words in the rhymes. The students did alright with the rhyming, they are still struggling with that a bit so the lesson did not go as smoothly as I had hoped but I still received the points that I need on the MTTS scoring. and my supervisor still liked the lesson and more importantly the students liked it. Here are a few pictures:
Another project I did during the semester was to design a bulletin board. And I must say I really do love what I did. Here is a picture:
The students loved the board and thought that their pumpkins looked really great.
Well that's my fall semester. And now over Winter break I will be working on my TWS (Teacher Work Sample), my portfolio, my resume, applications and the multicultural night the other interns and I are planning for the school. It's going to be a busy 'break'. Stay tuned!
