# 12 Third Week of Field Experience

Since Monday's are early out days in Alpine School District, the days are slightly shorter and Mrs. H's class doesn't have Social Studies. So instead, Rachael and I taught Tuesday-Friday. Each day we tried to do something a little different to not only give a little variety for the students, but also for our own knowledge to see what works and what does not.
We started each lesson with a short physical activity such as a song, dance or mirroring the leader. One day we used music from the time period of explorers(fiddles and banjo's) as background music while the students traced their maps in their Explorers packets.  Doing so kept the students from talking too much with their neighbors and helped them calm down, plus it was really fun to listen to. At the end of every lesson we used Roll on the Wall as our assessment to see what students had learned about the explorer we taught about that day.