Thursday, February 19, 2009

Early Lit. lesson plans


Last semester I took Methods of Early Literacy and had the great opportunity to work with students from nearby elementary. Once a week for about six weeks we visited this elementary and worked one on one or on occasion two on one working with the student to improve there reading abilities. In our class we had to come up with one lesson plan per week to use as we taught our child. For my example I am using the very first lesson plan that I wrote up.


Coming up with my first lesson plan, I wasn't sure what to expect. But, to my surprise it went pretty good for my first time. In my first lesson plan I had four things to get through. An interest inventory to get to know my kid better, an interactive read aloud where I would read to him, a informal guided reading where he would read to me a book of his choosing and lastly a writing time where he would write something to his choosing. Some things that went really well was the informal guided reading time. He was really excited to read his book that he chose to read to me. One thing that needed more work was deciding what he was going to write about. He wasn't that thrilled to write at all and I didn't think about ideas before hand that he could write about. He ended up writing what he did that past weekend and it turned out alright.

Somethings that I had changed up and will take into consideration into making lesson plans from here on out is to make sure you have enough to do. It is better to have too much planned than not enough. We got through my lesson plan a lot quicker than expected and we ended up just reading whatever he wanted too. But, from now on I know to add more stuff to my lesson plan and if I don't get to it all that, that's alright. I also made sure I had different ideas that he could write about when we got to that part of the lesson.

Thursday, February 5, 2009

My findings of some science blogs


































mad scientest



In my search of finding some science blogs that dealt with science in the elementary classroom, I was able to come away with a few.



This first one was just one blog on scienceblog.com. This blog was by Nate who i presume works for Atlantascience.com since that was in his email address. But his blog Reaching Elementary Science Students on a New Level stated how he believes that teachers are finding a hard time fitting science into the everyday routine of the classroom. I find this very true and thus why I found this blog interesting. He also said that the website Atlantascience.com could help you.



So the next place I went was to that website and to my surprise but not really all that surprised I found another blog. The blog on this website titled Atlanta Sciece Blog: Experiments, News, Activites for School and Home this blog is fairly new and does not have a whole lot of info but i can feel that it has potential to really help a lot of people. The basis of this blog is to share their ideas of diff ways to use science in the home and at school and also to tell us news of diff science things.




The other blog I found wasn't as geared towards elementary science but it was still interesting. The blog is on Sciencemadecool.com this was a blog simple stating rather random things about science some were cooler than others but all in all pretty interesting reading.




-Curt

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

First Post

My first post. More will be coming later.