Sunday, November 21, 2010

Reflection #10

My first week with field experience was pretty good. We met our cooperating teacher (Mrs. Schino) and her frouth grade class on Tuesday and observed them for a little bit. Mrs. Schino is from the East coast and not afraid to speak her mind. I was a little bit nervous about that at first but not so much anymore. Katie and I were assigned to Willow Springs Elementary. It's in Draper in a very nice neighborhood. It is a very nice elementary school and I can already tell there is a lot of parent support.

The first week was strictly observation  (thank goodness). I wanted to be able to see how the class functioned and how the dynamics were. This week in Social Studies they learned about where they live including the planet, hemisphere, conitinent, state, county, and city. Mrs. Schino has put us in charge of teaching her students map skills. I'm a little nervous because I'm not an expert in that area but I'll learn a lot with them. Fourth grade is the year you make salt maps of the state so Katie and I are pretty excited about that. It's one of our favorite things from fourth grade.

Our first lesson next week will be about the Compass Rose. We are going to incorporate a small art project and introduce the topic with a rap. We think this will help engage the students. I know the students really enjoy art and they have the opportunity to have an art lesson every Thursday from a separate art teacher. I think they are very blessed to have that opportunity because not every school has that luxury. The art teacher also happens to be one of the student's in Mrs. Schino's class' mom.

For right now Katie and I have those main ideas for integrating the arts. Mrs. Schino has been using the arts in her persuasuve writing assigmnent about turkeys. There are some very artistic children in the class. Integrating the arts into our lesson plans will be very possible and I think the students will really enjoy them.

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