Pictures

Here are a couple of pictures from student teaching that are long overdue.

My version of the teacher toolbox.

Watching worms turn leaves into soil.

The Water Cycle song, which the kids adored.

We did a sand mountain to learn about erosion and weathering. The children wrote about the process and drew pictures to go along with it.

Bulletin Board

Legendary Leaders bulletin board.
This board is huge and it took forever to do, but I love it. I put the children's President Project on the board (The ones that were turned in on time. The rest are elsewhere). I like this for my first bulletin board though. This was so much fun to do.

Tattle tank

My class LOVES to tattle. My CT and I decided to put a tattle tank in place, so this is what I made.

It may be one of my favorite parts of the day reading the humorous tattles. Oh the hilarities of what children think is important.

Student teaching

First, I would like to say that I can't believe I get to do this everyday. I absolutely love student teaching. I was placed with a fabulous 2nd grade class, and I am matched perfectly with the teacher. I feel like the teacher makes or breaks the experience and mine definitely makes it. My class, although they are precious and I love them, they are quite the wild bunch. We have a lot of strong personalities. I am learning about the real world of teaching for sure. I am exhausted at the end of everyday, but I am constantly being confirmed that this is the thing that I am supposed to do.

My cooperating teacher is fabulous and lets me do as my heart desires. She allowed me to make some behavior management tools for the class. I made two bored boxes and a respectful reward raffle box, where they can put their name into a drawing for a prize if they have by gotten in trouble at all during the day.

To sum this post up, I absolutely love what I do. Joy is being had to the max.

Student Teaching

Today I found out that I will be in 2nd grade for my student teaching internship next semester. Yay! I can't wait; I love second grade.

Living vs. Non-Living things

Today we studied about living vs. non-living things.



We started out by talking about things the kiddos think might be living, then we listened to a fun song that tells the criteria to see if something is living or not. The kids LOVED the song. They were jamming out.



Here is a link to the video with lyrics on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_aAkuK_8nQ

The criteria is:
needs air
moves/grows
needs food or water


We then talked about what NON living might mean, since that can be a tricky concept for six year olds. They did a fabulous job.


After listening to the song twice, on request, we read the book, "What's Alive?" by Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld





Finally the students had a chance to draw pictures or write words or living and non-living things and categorize them.

Today was wonderful, and the kids really enjoyed it. I do wish that I had made the children a checklist of the questions they should ask themselves to see if something is living or not. They could check yes or no to see if it is living or not. Oh well, you live and learn, or if you are a rock you don't.

Graphs and Diagrams