Blog Day 8

Food Journal Reflection

When I was looking back over my food on the app, the first thing that I noticed was that I tend to eat foods that contain mostly carbohydrates. I also noticed that I do not eat enough protein. I know that protein is really important, and I thought that I was eating better now that I was making my own lunches now that I was in school. Before I was in school I was eating a lot of microwave dinners. Which I know is really unhealthy. When I started school I was making peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, carrots, cherries, celery with peanut butter. To me I thought that I was eating healthy, but it looks like I am going to have to eat more protein. I found out that I am pretty active, I walk my dog very morning from anywhere to 20-45 minutes in the morning at a medium pace. I feel that I would be a pretty good model for my students, I feel that I don’t really eat fast food that often (which is huge right now), I am snacking on fruits and vegetables. I am showing them that just because you don’t run or do sports, just getting out and walking your dog every day is a great way to get out and active, but most importantly they are getting outside.

The goal that I set for myself was to drink more water. Normally during the summer I am outside with a camelback/water bladder where I drink one of those a day. But because I was working and in school I noticed that I was drinking way less water. I was only drinking about 24 ounces a day. So my goal was to drink two of those water bottles a day, or two 1 liter bottles a day. I took until today for me to be able to drink two 1 liter water bottles a day. So over all I don’t think I did really well on my goal. There were many things that hindered my goal; the first being I had to pee all the time. Though I have heard and try to live by the saying “clear pee is happy pee.” The second thing that hindered my goal was that water had a really boring taste. So the way helped this was I have had cucumbers, different fruits to flavor my water, and even crystal light. One way I could help my students reach their goals is by getting their in small steps, and make sure they are setting challenging but reachable goals.

I feel that this food journal is a great way for children to see what they are eating. I feel that it would be more effective than tell children to eat differently. Many of them are not going to want to do that, because it is something they have to do or are being told to do. Having them write the food they eat down can be a great way for them to visually see what they are eating. You could make this into an interdisciplinary activity, in science you could have them test the different foods to show what it looks like as they break down in the human stomach. Or for math you could have them add the different calories they eat for each meal. There are so many ways one could incorporate this into many different lessons.

Blog Day 7

It was scary to see how many cleaning products look like food products or ones that could put in their body. I knew growing up that I had a cleaning pantry and food pantry. It is also scares me to think if parents were to put them in a similar location how many could accidents occur. I think what shocked me the most was that food products looked way to similar to cleaning products. I am not sure why companies would do this or how they get away with this. I mean in this day and age there are so many rules and regulations so we can keep our kids safe, why are we making the products look like ones can eat. It is scary to think we are making products look like ones that are not safe to consume. 

When we were sorting the medications vs the candy, I feel that I had an unfair advantage because I work in the pharmacy, so I have come to recognize what are candy and what are drugs. So I found myself taking a back seat role. I wanted to make sure my classmates were able to try and sort the "pill" first before I put my two cents in. I found it hard at times, i wanted to jump in and tell them how or what "pills" needed to go where. I feel that this was a great learning opportunity for what it is going to be like at a teacher. I am going to what to jump in and help my students learn, but that may not be the best. Sometimes I am going to have to let my student struggle so they can learn. They say we learn best when we fail first, because we have to go back over and review are work.  So it was a good teachable moment for me. 

Blog Day 6

Well I have to say that today was very interesting, I have never had the opportunity to dissect anything. I had a really hard time cutting into a another animals eye. So it was nice that I was able to work with a partner who did most of the cutting for me. I feel that this is important to remember when I am in a classroom of my own. It is going to be difficult for some students than others.

I also thought that it was very interesting to see a human brain up close. I have always seen them in movies or pictures. But it was really cool to see it up close and in person. I did not know that a human brain weights so much. But having this type of hands-on learning can be very beneficial, and add an extra level of engagement for students learning.

Blog Day 5

I know the first thing that I learned today was that I can no longer hula hoop. I remember really liking it in gym class, and being (what I thought) was really good. I thought that it is a great to see how we could apply jump-roping to the different curriculum. I liked how we were given topics and then asked to make up rhythms about different subject. I feel that this is a great way for students to get up and active as well.

I also really liked the two groups presentations. I feel that the germs presentation I would really like to use in my kindergarten classroom. I feel that it would really benefit them, or any age. It was also a good lesson on what healthy eating is. I would also like to use this in my classroom, but it would be interesting to see how you could change it up for the younger grades.

Blog Day 4

Today was really helpful for when it comes to putting lesson planing into practice. It was really good practice getting to write a lesson plan, and see how much work and time goes into lesson planning. I found that the lesson plan went really well. My group plan all most every aspect of the lesson. It was really nice to have it all planned out, i feel it made me more comfortable being up in front of the class.
What I found really helpful was going over how the presentation went. It was nice to hear the strengths of the presentation. I am really glad that it worked for all most all the "students." I am really glad that we were able to go over what needed improvements. I feel that the only way I am going to get better at teacher is by getting feedback on how to improve. I found that most of the improvement were ones that I did not think of and would like to incorporate into the next lesson plan that I make.

Blog Day 2

I feel that today was really useful for when I start teaching. It was helpful to go over the beginning stages of lesson planning. It was helpful to make one in a group, that way you can bounce and build off of each other. I feel that this was a good lesson for when I start teaching in my own classroom, and how it will be beneficial to work with other teachers and how collaboration with only benefit me but also my students.
I also found it really helpful to put up our objectives and have the class go over them. at first it was hard to hear people pick apart your ideas, but it ended up being a really good learning experience.
A few of the things that I learned was it was good to have alignment of all three big ideas. The objectives are to be stated as student will learn..... or students will know how to do... The second part is about assessment this is things/product/activity. The third section is criteria/ evidence, within the product.

Blog Day 1

We covered many different topics today, being that it was the first day of the quarter. For me it is always a bit overwhelming to hear about everything we have to do. Even more so because this is just a two week quarter. I feel after looking over the syllabus there is so many topics that we are going to cover, and I am worried about how much I am going to remember.
From today what I remember or found important was the face-to-face communication. That face-to-face- communication can come in many different forms. There is non-verbal cues that you have to remember that your students are going to pick up on. This can be hard if there is a wide rang of cultures in the classroom. Being face-to-face can allow for immediate feedback.
I am also looking forward to making a lesson plan, and getting that practice with feedback not only from the teacher but also the class.