My Internship So Far...

In response to Mrs. Stevens' blog,

My internship so far, has been amazing. My students are pretty great. I am with the second grade at Holiday Heights with Mrs. Ownby.

My first day at my school, the students greeted me as if they already knew who I was. They welcomed me home, like I was one of them. I felt really good.
When I am at my site school, we are working on English and Reading. Usually we will rotate around different subjects depending on what we need to get done for the day. I usually work on reading individually with my students and working in groups for math.
I am really looking forward to being able to teach the students more and getting them ready for the third grade. They are so willing to learn this year, and it means a lot to me.

The students show that they are willing to learn and some of them take a lot of initiative to pull me aside and ask if they can read with me.
There are a couple of differences from the way my class worked last year, to the way it works this year. The students I have this year are more willing to work with me and more willing to learn. The students are more interactive and cooperative this year. One of the students I work with has learned a new technique that I showed her while reading. Instead of just struggling with a word when she reads it, she will try to read it, and if she still can't read it correctly when she is reading, she will write the word down and practice it throughout the day.
I love my student's already, and I can tell they love me. I'm looking forward to making a difference to these kids. :)

Let's Reflect On Our Teacher Created Material!

In response to Mrs. Steven's blog,

I had done the Teacher Created Material project, because I was not able to go to TAFE Region. Although, I would have loved to go with my fellow interns.

I'm sure you all did a superb job, and I am very jealous that I didn't get to go.

The Teacher Created Material I had made was a set of sentence strips that had to do with homophones. During the making of the sentence strips, I had come up with a lesson that went along with what I was doing. The plan is that I will read the book, Dear Deer, by Gene Barretta, to the students and then talk a little bit about the differences in the homophonic words. When we finish talking about homophones, I will then split the students up into groups of around 3-4 and they will be going through the different sentence strips.

The sentence strips are laminated pieces of sentence strips provided by my teacher, Mrs. Stevens. There are sentences provided on the strips that have a blank.

 At the top of the sentence strips,  are 3 different choices of the words that the students will have to write on the sentence strip with an expo marker. The students will then flip their sentence strip over, to check their answers. Having the strips with their own self-checking method, helps the students be able to see if they actually did their work correctly.

I will have to test the students to make sure they understand the way the homophones work.

The way in which I will have an assessment for my students with this activity would be that I would have the students come up with their own sentences that include the different homophonic words. I will then grade them, depending on how well they know the difference between the homophones.  Hopefully this will help the students be able to understand the differences between homophones.