WOW! Time has been flying by while being in my first grade classroom at Oak Hill Elementary. I am absolutely in love with my class. So far, this has been a HUGE learning experience for me!
My cooperating teacher has really let me dive right into teaching her class. In the first 8 days of my field experience I have done five read-alouds, four mini lessons, and have done one morning message. Talk about being busy! But this has been a great opportunity because I am learning very quickly what first graders respond to and what they do not. When I do my mini lessons, the students are rotating through four different stations. This means that I am doing the same lesson four times. By the fourth round, I have changed how I approach what I am doing and almost feel bad for the first group. But, this is showing me that I am learning and growing as a teacher.
Doing a read-aloud in class with an activity means that I am in charge of going through the papers the students completed in class. I am to bring them home, comment on them, and then put each students papers into their take home cubbies so they can read what I wrote.
I have two more read-alouds scheduled this week along with a morning meeting activity and lesson that I will be doing in my classroom along with the other first grade classroom. I am looking forward to seeing how this week will go and what new experiences I am going to have!
Hope everyone is doing well :)
Kari Meyer
That is so true what you said about how the way you teach something changes a little every time. In previous field experiences I noticed that happening, and it does show how quickly we can learn and modify, which is really neat! I thought that was a great idea to include pictures in your post. It looks and sounds like you are enjoying your time and are gaining many meaningful experiences!
ReplyDeleteI love that you incorporated pictures with your post. It really shows that you two are enjoying your FE. You also sound like you have been super buys! That is awesome that you have been able to dive into several lessons. I have done several read alouds and have helped with one mini lesson but compared to your experience i got nothing. I look forward to reading about your experience.
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