7 hours a Day

Whew! I can't believe it has only been about two weeks since my last post. It feels much longer than that! Student teaching had me going about a mile a minute and now it's almost over! It's like we hit the ground runnin' and now that I can breathe again, I don't exactly know what to do with myself. Actually, now it is time to do some job hunting! All that aside, there were some things I thought I'd share....

My TIAI unit was all about the sun and moon! We made sunshines and plan to make an Oreo moon tomorrow! They learned all 8 phases of the moon (did you know there are 8?!)! We even played the waxing and waning game and sang a moon song that really gets stuck in your head I might add! It's always a good sign when you hear them humming the tune under their breath :). My cooperating teacher dubbed me Ms. Moon today.

I also taught quite a few lessons on adjectives! At the end of one of the weeks we had popcorn for a treat and described it with all five senses (we wrote about this as a share the pen activity/thanks Ms. Morgan for helpin' with these two ideas!)... We also created interactive adjective mobiles where a group described a picture with one adjective and the class had to guess the magazine picture without seeing it but by listening to the adjectives. We hung them outside and I was excited when the kids would look at them and make sure the pictures were hidden so people could guess. I think it means they liked it! Adjectives are tricky for first graders!





Today we made dinosaurs. Don't worry I tried my hand at it too but I'm afraid mine looked more like a fish.



We have been studying dinosaurs and the kids really seemed to enjoy it! This was the first time they worked with clay/play dough in our class. It wasn't too bad, I would just tell them if they have extra clay to not mix it together....otherwise you get a glob of an unknown color that you can't reuse....lesson learned! My favorite quote of this unit was, "Ms. Schreck, I always wanted a baby Bronchiosaurus!"