Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Kindergarten China/Korea and 1st Clay

1st grade was in their classroom due to a location conflict (exhibition). The class went well according to me, the students, Mrs. Mahoney (the Media Assistant) and the 1st grade teacher who nicely connected my lesson to hers. The clay I left with was sculpted pricelessly since the focus of course was not on sculpting---the focus was on change and what causes change and what changed in the story I read and how it changed. Students used clay and gave me about 15 different verbs that they used to describe what they did to the clay (smooshed, moved, put, shaped, rolled, etc.)

The students got to the points of your hands being necessary as well as your brain as well as a plan and an idea. What makes your hands work was asked by me and they said your brain. They eventually got that food is necessary for your brain to work.
Revisions to the lesson were made just to reinforce previous lessons on solid, liquid, and gas.

The teacher's use of language also helped at the end.

I need to print out article on sleep for Homework club.

I worked on imputting titles from the binder into Destiny list which I will then change into a category.

I was assisting the 5th grade Historians as I was reviewing my lessons for the day.

I put on book labels.

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