This last week and a half has been so exciting! I’m really
enjoying the second grade classroom I am in. The class is very rowdy and can be
very challenging most days, but it is such great experience for me. Most days
we work in stations and I always work with the lowest group. This last week
they have been working on long and short “O” sounds. One thing my CT has them
do is an activity on the smart board where they read a word and then drag a
button to each syllable and then it pronounces it for them. At the end it
sounds out the entire word and then repeats it one more time.
Another activity the students seem to enjoy is their morning
meeting. My CT does it a little different than I've ever seen it done. She runs
the entire morning meeting on the smart board. Students take turns going up to
the smart board and doing activities such as writing the date, recording who
has lost a tooth that week, skip counting practice, the weather for the day and
they also get a number of the day and then have a few activities they do with
that number. They keep doing activities until every student has got a chance to
go up to the board and then they start the rest of their day. I really like
watching the student participate in these activities because when one of them
is stuck they help each other out. I do wish their morning meeting was a little
more interactive with each other but it is still very effective.
I am also very excited because my CT told my partner and me
that we get the opportunity to plan the whole literacy block for an entire week
and then we also get to teach it for the whole week. This is going to be a huge
job, but I cannot wait to get started and see how the week goes. I hope
everyone else is having a great time with their experience!!!
Nikki Chounard
*Sorry this is so late, I was having trouble with this site! I hope everyone is having great experiences in the classroom!
I like the idea of doing stations, it would be fun to lead one! The idea of the smart board for morning meeting is interesting, I do not get to see morning meeting because I am not there during that time. I would be interested to see how a smart board morning meeting would go. It does seem like there would be less interaction with the class.
ReplyDeleteIt is exciting that you get to plan the literacy block for the whole week, that will be fun for you, and great experience! Hope it goes well!
That's really interesting that she uses the smart board for morning meeting! Do the students still greet each other or how does she incorporate the greeting into the morning meeting with the smart board? My CT does morning meeting very similar each week, but I think that is whats best for my students being Kindergartners. That's so exciting that you get to plan the whole literacy block for the week! I would be really nervous, but I'm sure it will go great!
ReplyDeleteThe students don't greet each other in their morning meeting. Instead they take turns coming up to the smart board and writing the date, the weather, doing pattern activities, the number of the day, math problems, and then they end with doing a zumba activity where they dance around. Then we start the rest of the day. The students seem to like their morning meeting. I do wish it was a little more interactive but I love that they do zumba every morning before they jump into a lesson.
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