Another fun week with Mrs. H's class. Rachael and I even got to take our first try at teaching on Wednesday. In our lesson we started out by doing a little brain boosting by having students follow along with doing the brain dance and other stretching activities. By doing so, the students were a lot less fidgety for our lesson. After learning about Fathers Escalante and Dominguez and how they had to turn around in the middle of their expedition and head home instead of finishing their original destination of Monterey, California, we had the students create a decision alley. One side of the alley came up with reasons for turning around (winter time, so people wouldn't die, etc) and the other side had reasons to continue the journey (finish what you started, etc). We then had two students represent Father Escalante and Dominguez walk down the alley, listening to all the different reasons. The students had fun doing this, but Rachael and I decided it could had gone a LOT smoother had we explained the activity clearer to the students.
Throughout the week we also observed arts in the classroom as the students worked on various artistic projects. One of my favorites was carving their own petroglyph into clay tablets. Each students' work was very unique but each one looked so cool and told a different story (of which they wrote themselves.)
On Thursday, after the "early birds" went home and it was just the later group there, Mrs. H passed out a little song about Tommy the Turkey. As the students learned to read it they also learned the tune to the song and they picked up how to sing it really quick. They all loved the song and it also has helped their reading fluency also.
Friday was our second time teaching and it went really well. As an assessment activity at the end we did the process drama "Role on the Wall." Since our lesson was on Jim Bridger we had the students fill in his outline with facts about him that they had learned that day. They loved it!
Next week we are teaching all 4 Social studies lessons and we cannot wait to get started!
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