Language Arts Day 4 was all on classroom management!

Everything went well today, but had a few challenges.  Today was the first day that I worked with the girl at Children’s Hospital so we skyped her into class.  It was also the same day for iPads in the classroom and I was observed by Dr. S.  management was a little difficult today because of all of these elements that I had to include, but the teacher said I handled it well for being thrown into all of it so that was encouraging.

The lesson today on personification went well.  I started off with a video clip of the giving tree which introduced the personification aspect.  That was good and then I went into examples which they could all pick out so that was great!  Then the iPad portion came and the students had to create a pic collage of the personification in the poem I gave to them.  This is where the management was difficult.  I had students working on them which was great but then when they were presenting they were still playing with them and I announced many times to turn them off and close the case.  After they presented they had to show the girl on skype so there was a lot of things going on at once.  In the future it would be nice to know when I was skyping with my student so I could prepare better.

Overall this lesson went well and the students understood what they were learning about and they had their chance to write their own poem.  As far as I could see they were doing a great job and I will collect them tomorrow.