Getting Ready for the Monday!

Hey everyone!

I can't believe we only have six days left of our field experience, holy cow did time fly!!

I have been given opportunities to read to my first grade class about five times a week on average along with giving instructions for the activities that go along with the book read. One of my books, The Deep Blue Sea, I read to both my first grade class along with Mrs. Ormsby's class (another first grade class). When I did this, I definitely changed things from the first class to the second class. The second time I did the lesson, I knew how to read the story better so that the children were more engaged and I was also able to run through the color activity I made better.

The color activity started with each student holding a card sitting in a circle. One side of there card had a color while the other side said, "I'm looking for… (color)." When the students color was called they got to say what color they were looking for. Once everyone had a chance to stand up and read their colors we ended back at the beginning. This activity went along well with the book, helped students with their reading, introduced new color words, and tied in with our adjective and describing words theme we had done the prior week in class.

On Monday, I am doing a  glyph activity with my first grade class. This is more of a math lesson but I am looking forward to it! The students are going to make a turkey based on certain things they eat for Thanksgiving, if they travel, if they will have dessert, what kind of turkey meat they like, etc. Just a heads up, if you are ever thinking about doing an activity like this from scratch and cut out enough pieces for the entire class you may want to plan a whole day to prepare!

I have a lesson plan to put together for Turk and Runt. I will be reading this to the class on Monday and will have comprehension questions to put together for it. So, my Sunday afternoon will consist of putting the rest of this together!

Hope everyone is doing GREAT! Can't wait to see you all in a couple weeks. :)

Kari Meyer