Hello everyone! I am sure some of you have been wondering where I have been on this blog. I had a few complications with my gmail account, but no worries I'm still here :)
I was placed in Mrs. Wilgers 3rd grade class with Kayla, and it has been a fabulous experience to say the least. Her classroom is a large classroom with 28 students. On the first day we got to jump right in and lead small group reading with a short story about Elijah McCoy. From the first day on, we have helped out with a variety of different things such as observing a counselor talk about being a coach and a critic of yourself, pumpkin carving, read alouds, assessing, grading, copying, lesson planning, snow day, holiday, and classroom management.
I was very nervous to teach my first lesson plan and to even read a book aloud to the class, but it is so fun to be up in front of a third grade class doing my natural thing. It was very interesting to experience a snow day... I will hopefully land a job somewhere near the place I live because I am not a fan of driving in those conditions.
As far as technology goes, Mrs. Wilger uses a smart board every single day for math. The students use the smart board to see her lessons. I would like to see her involve the class more with using the interactive white board. Other than the smart board I haven't seen much use of technology in her classroom.
I think I can speak for both kayla and myself when I say that we have gotten very lucky with our placement and the experiences we have had so far.
I remember you saying you were going to be there for the math block and not the literacy block. Do you get to see anything related to literacy or no? It sounds like you're still getting to do read alouds and lesson planning, so at least you're still getting to practice some of the things we learned!
ReplyDeleteI definitely am happy with where we are too :) We get to do many things for both math and language arts! We are there for both. They have math for the first hour and a half and then language arts, and sometimes they have language arts the entire time we are there! It is really nice to get a feel for both because it has allowed us to practice math with them and help them with any math questions they have so it has been great experience for both of us!
ReplyDeleteDo you guys do literacy on the smart board at all? In our classroom we have grammar lessons where we drag words to write sentences and such. Its such a good experience and the students know so much about it! It always surprises me how much more the students know about the smart board then I do sometimes.
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