This week we celebrated the start of Fall with Johnny Appleseed's birthday and an apple theme! One of my lessons for this week was creating apple prints with the students and also incorporating sentence writing. It was definitely a trial and error process! This activity showed me that prior to a messy lesson you should practice at home so you are confident when you create with the kiddies. My students were given the task of choosing between the colors red, yellow, or green and they then had to write the sentence " NAME likes COLOR apples in Fall." This one of the students' first experience with writing on a line and A LOT of erasing occurred at my station. But that is OK!! Though some students eventually wrote their sentence after basically erasing a hole in their paper.....others needed a little extra help. For those students, I wrote out the sentence in highlight and they had to trace the pre-written words. I was pretty impressed with my on-the-spot differentiation idea!
After a month of allowing the students to sit where they please at circle time......that time has come to a beautiful end. Some students just cannot sit next to each other because of incessant chatting, touching, or fighting. Asking my students to sit still for 30 minutes is so challenging for them! I am hoping that my assigned seats will delete some fidgets and chatting issues.
As my time for full time teaching and starting my research project comes close, I am getting excited! I will definitely need to start pre-planning my activities so I am not completely overwhelmed in the next few weeks. Here's to a happy new week and the start of October!!
Love the highlighting idea--never thought of that (more stealing).
ReplyDeleteI always have my kids in assigned spots--can't stand the lack of control of you don't.
Talk to Ashlee about the brain breaks we've implemented--I'm seeing a difference for us!