Week 2 Blog Post

On Tuesday is when my partner and I found worksheets and made an anchor chart on how to plan the lesson on sinking and floating. We began by grouping the high-level learning students into two groups and the low-level full of energy students into two separate groups. We posted our anchor chart onto a white board that the teacher uses to post her morning message. The first group of high-level kids made predictions on what they believe would sink or float. I put a couple items in a tub of water to show them on what to do and went over guidelines on how to properly put the items in the water. The students then made predictions and placed the items in the water. When the chart was completed, we gave them a few more items to put in the water. We did have to kick a student out of the activity because he was misbehaving, but other than that we had no problems. My partner and I did this Wednesday and Thursday with the high-level kids and there were no problems on that Thursday for the activity.

Along with doing our lesson, we helped with math lessons and games when needed. Other than that we reflected on our day and how the lesson went.

Friday was a kind of a rough one for me. I went in to help, but didn't have to. There was a little spat while the students were playing a game during morning meeting. After this occurred, we had a little talk about being safe when this happens. Everything calmed down and I stayed until lunch and left. This was the beginning of our lesson and we took off from there.