Week 11

Last week during field experience my class unfortunately had a substitute for the day so most of the time was spent on busy work for the students. The substitute was told to have the students do map stations for most of the morning. The students had dry erase maps at each of their desks as well as a folder that was a "station." The folder had specific instructions for the students to follow and sometimes a worksheet for them to fill out as well. I think our teacher did a great job of preparing the sub for the day and the students seemed to enjoy the map activities as well.

One of the parents from the classroom also took out small groups one at a time to work on the school garden. I thought this was a great activity for the students to be able to work outside and learn a new skill. Some of the students didn't take the activity very seriously though and I think this had a lot to do with the fact that their normal teacher wasn't there. I think it was great for the students to be learning this new skill.

During E339 class, we had peer conferences about our seed idea for our published piece. My partner is making a children's book about one of her vacations and I am going to make a collections of poems as of now. I am excited to see what other pieces people choose to create.

Also during class we performed our writing analysis. I think this was a great idea to really look deeper into one of my student's writings and look for very small details that I wouldn't normally notice.

The last thing we did in class was reading photographs. I thought this was a great activity because a photograph can really be interpreted in so many different ways. It was interesting to see what people thought of the picture that Linda brought in. It could have meant so many different things. I think this would be a great activity in my future classroom.