Today's lesson went very well. The students loved cutting out the words on pumpkin shapes and forming sentences. Unfortunately the students were very wound up in the afternoon and did not focus very well. It took them a long time also to get used to the cutting one row at a time out and then using glue to put them on a paper. Tomorrow I am going to have to try some new management techniques and see if that will help hold the students attention longer. Otherwise the days lesson went well and the students understood what to do very well.
Language Arts Dec. 4, 2012
Today's lesson was a bit hectic. Tuesdays for SPI's 1st grade are very full. The studnets are devided a lot and they have a lot to fit in with having practices for the christmas concert. I was able to teach about half of the group. We continued today with a winter themed sentence puzzle. Just like yesterday the students cut out words row by row and tried to form sentences with them. I had a few of the advanced students finsih pretty quickly, so I had them tak eout a piece of paper and write their sentences down and draw a picture for them. Students were busy working and engaged throughout the whole lesson. We did not get to talking to about subjects and verbs of the sentences today because the day was cut short due to the amount of things that are involved in the SPI 1st grade Tuesday. Tomorrow we will continue on with creating our own sentence word puzzles and trading with classmates.
Language Arts Dec. 5, 2012
Today's lesson went fairly well. The students were excited to create their own sentence word
puzzles for each other. The process of writing their sentences took a lot long than I anticipated.
Many of the students needed guidance and many just shouted out when they needed help. If I
were to teach this lesson again I would really work on letting the students sound out the words
themselves. This class is so focused on wanting everything to be right instead of making mistakes.
This makes it very hard for them to just right confidently and not worry about spelling. We have to
continue the lesson tomorrow because the sentence writing took so long today, but I look forward
to seeing the students solve each others sentences tomorrow.
Language Arts Dec. 6, 2012
Today's lesson went very well. We continued our work from yesterday's lesson.
Today I had each student get an envelope of another classmate's and try to solve
their sentence puzzle. The students got right to work and had happy words
the whole time they were working. Many students got to work on two
or three sentence puzzles. Some of the puzzles didn't quite make sense,
but I had the students fill in the missing word or think of another way
to write the sentence so it makes senes. I was very well pleased with this lesson
and we will continue on with a new lesson tomorrow.
Language Arts Dec. 6, 2012
Today's lesson went very well. We continued our work from yesterday's lesson.
Today I had each student get an envelope of another classmate's and try to solve
their sentence puzzle. The students got right to work and had happy words
the whole time they were working. Many students got to work on two
or three sentence puzzles. Some of the puzzles didn't quite make sense,
but I had the students fill in the missing word or think of another way
to write the sentence so it makes senes. I was very well pleased with this lesson
and we will continue on with a new lesson tomorrow.
Language Arts Dec. 7, 2012
Today's lesson went very well. The students loved working in groups to order their sentences of a very special story to match the envelope given to them. Many of the students were eager to figure out what the story was, so they read through their sentence(s) together several times and discussed what the special story was. We went through each envelope and the students tried to read their words and then I would repeat them and slowly each student realized what the special story was. It was the birth of Jesus story. The students were very excited once they figured out and we ended with discussing at this time of year we remember what God did for us by sending his son as a baby to live as one of us.
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