Skip to main content

Anne Harris Week 15

This week we have continued working with our skill leveled groups on fractions. There are five students who are excelling in fractions and four who are still struggling very much. I have made different worksheets and activities for these students to help them remember the strategies we have been using since we began this chapter. This relates to Standard 1 and 3. It seems we are going to be on this for a lot longer than anticipated.

Moving forward with reading and comparing, setting, plot, and theme the students began working with their partners to utilize this comprehension strategy. They have been doing amazing at this and I am very impressed with their work on this. They should be just fine working independently at the end of next week. Their success relates to Standard 2 and 6.

We have been doing more land form reading on Epic Reading online and the students have been able to find interesting facts to write in their social studies notebook on each. The students enjoy listening to reading and are engaged in these lessons. We have also incorporated activities for Earth Day. We have read The Lorax, did activities based on that, and they were able to watch The Lorax movie.

The students have finally finished writing their biographies. They did pretty well on this assignment overall and only a few of the students needed constant assistance on writing the answers into sentences. They now are picking items for their portfolios for the school. We are almost done with that. This assignment meets standards 6 and 7.

Comments

  1. DocAustinApril 29, 2018 at 7:57 AM

    Dear Harris,
    I wish you continued success as you move onward to the next phase on this journey of teaching. It is a career that involves much care, dedication, concern and knowledge as you are accountable for the academic lives of many young lives. I have always seen teaching as a service to others and myself as a servant in the work. It is important as you serve others that you also find balance and take care of yourself; physically, mentally, renewing your practices and sharpening your saw. Remember, “whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men” Colossians 3:23.
    Best wishes!
    Dr. Austin

    ReplyDelete
  2. UnknownMay 1, 2018 at 6:15 AM

    Time does fly...
    Student teaching x
    observations x
    Lesson plans x
    & BLOGGING x
    Your blogs were always great.
    God bless you as you continue life's journey.

    jim


    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Anne Harris Week 8

This week the class started to learn how to use the online version of the PARCC test. This is new to the elementary grades this year, so they had to learn all the tools. This seems very complicated for them and a lot of work. The PARCC test is something I have learned about throughout Trinity, but to actually see the example tests verifies how hard this test can be. I assisted with the students as the teacher showed what to do on her computer on the board. During reading I am learning how to do the small groups. This relates to Standard 1 Teaching Diverse Students, because the students are split into their groups by their reading level. My teacher has allowed me to watch her do a few and this week I am starting to take that over. We just began these because the DRA testing has ended. I went to the 3rd grade DRA meeting, which was very informative. I like how the teachers and the reading specialists/ELL teachers all work together to come up with solutions/interventions for the childre...
1 comment
Read more

Anne Harris Week 6

This week I started and finished my video taping for the edTPA. The kids did very good not paying attention to the camera and worked with each other very well each day. This relates to Standard 4 Learning Environment because even though there was some seat changes and a camera, they knew to still stay on task. I know what two days I want to use for my clips, but I still need to figure out exactly what parts I should use. I learned that planning ahead exactly is very hard, especially with the edTPA lesson plans, so I do need to adjust those, because we did not move long as I thought me would. Other than that, the students understand the concept of point of view much better now than they did on Tuesday. I learned the importance of exit slips and to explain questions you ask in more detail. Over all I still some things to do to finish up task 1 and I plan to have that done on Sunday so I can use Monday to work on task 2 at Trinity. I also continued to teach the lesson on Ruby Bridges. The...
2 comments
Read more