Aziza May and I prepared for our lesson by first deciding how we wanted to introduce the lesson plan on Jasper's Beanstalk. We had a few ideas at first, such as, just simply going over the days of the week, but we decided to do something more interactive and fun for the students. We decided to go with the "The Seven Days of the Week" sign language song. After we figured out the introduction and the anticipatory set everything was pretty much a breeze for us! When we were all finish with the lesson plan we practice teaching our lesson to one of our friends who actually played a great role as a first grade student! For our objectives we used SWBAT (students will be able to.) We had three objectives: SWBAT answer comprehension qquestions while collectively reading it as a class, SWBAT create their own plant, and SWBAT complete a sequential order worksheet on the days of the week. The three objectives that we decided on was used and I think the students actually create and complete everything that was done in class. Our formative and summative assessments that we decided on was executed in my opinion. We observed the students while they learned the seven days of the week song, ask the students questions about the lesson plan and the book on Jasper's Beanstalk, and we walked around and made sure they comprehended the sequential order worksheet. For the summative we changed it up by having the students one by one come up and do steps of planting a seed. For the most part our lesson plan was executed exactly as it was written, except when we started to have behavioral problems which didn't bother us at all because we anticipated that to happen. The most important thing we tried to teach our students was to have fun and enjoy the lesson. When behavioral problems started to occur we encouraged them to be on their best behavior so we could get through the lesson and fun activities along with it. I think the lesson went well. With all the behavior and steps we had to do I believe we held are on and did a fine job! It was a fun lesson to do! What I learned from the students was to always be as patient and understanding as you can in a classroom without stopping the students from wanting to learn and participate. I do not think I would have done anything differently that I can think of as of now. I think we could have made the lesson more effective by having actual seeds!!!!!! I think as an upcoming teacher I can approve on being more smooth and having a nice transitions from going to one part of the lesson to the next!
This lesson was very fun to create and I enjoyed teaching it with Aziza!
I commented on Aziza's blog as well, but I wanted to tell you how I felt as well. I loved your lesson and thought you both will make great teachers in the future. I thought the plant activity was really great, and the students would love to watch their plants growing for weeks after the lesson!
ReplyDeleteYour lesson was very good. Being a boy I liked to hear about the dirt and planting and stuff. When you said we were planting our own things I was hooked in big time. Great job!
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