September 16, 2009
Tomorrow I will do my first lesson. As I have been reading James and the Giant Peach, I will lead a lesson exploring the problems and dilemmas facing James and his creature friends, and how those problems were solved. I got a quick lesson on using the document reader, and active board which I will use tomorrow. My MT showed me a book on how information is processed in the brain , and how fidgeting is a good mechanism to help some students stimulate their brain. My own bias would say that children should be attentive at all times and if they are fidgeting, they are not paying attention, but evidently this is not necessarily so. The key I think is whether it becomes distracting to other students, so I expect I will learn to detect it with more experience. Another tip for stimulating children and keeping them engaged is to periodically get them up and moving around. The MT accomplishes this with stretching, and exercises generally everyday.
Graded papers and created a special math worksheet to help one student that is struggling in math.
I know have the general weekly schedule and will only document unique lessons for the day.
10:00 Short “e” words was covered with each student called upon to come up with an appropriate word. Students that were unable to think of a word (met, pet, chef) were allowed time to think harder, and the MT came back to them.
10:56 Handwriting covered the letters, c, e s.
12:20 Prompted writing lesson.
- Pencils are taken from a central location by the sharpener. MT says that students sharpening them throughout the day is very distracting.
- When instructing one grade they move up in their seats while the other class moves back or to the community table or the floor with clipboards.
- Handwriting - Students that can “test out”, that is have good handwriting skills may be excused from this exercise, and elect to read instead.
- Writing Prompt - Lesson stressed good story writing has a start, middle, and end with transitions to connect them.
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