Audubon Teaching Journal

• Celebrated first thing this morning with math achievement awards for those that can move up a level.
• Worked with one of my regular student on cleaning up their writing for the traditions exercise, and the “if I were a pumpkin” exercise.
• Children worked again on the all things pumpkin project citing scientific observations about pumpkins such as from seeds, to seedlings, to pumpkins.  There will be a math component also.
• Interesting reading and writing exercise on the Talking Cloth.  I cloth that is weaved in Africa which through colors and symbols a story is told.  kids started there own cloth project - Ashanti Adinkra.
• MY distributed better describing words sheets.  Trying to move from simple adjectives to more descriptive one in their writing.
• I will give my first of two lessons tomorrow.  This one is not observed by my field instructor.