Stressed...... 11/30

So I am sure where to start this blog post today……

I really need a vent post, I am finding it hard with going to school during the week and then working on my off days. I am finding it really hard to find time just for me, to do things that I find fun, that do not have do with (school, house work, ect). Having this past week off  (Wednesday, Thursday, Friday),  I told myself that I would give myself a day off, but I found myself coming home after spending time with family and friends coming to do homework. So I know that as we I get closer to the end of the program it is only going to get more crazy busy, I am going to need to find time for myself.

I am wondering how to do it… What are other people doing…? Also how are people who have kids finding time to have fun?, Work has just gotten more crazy with the holidays coming up, and only going to get more stressful, and I am going to need to de-stress. I am going to try and give myself one day off next quarter where I get to do what I want…

I do find myself always looking forward to the days when I can spend time with the kids……

Strategies for the Classroom 11/23

The norms that I would like to start using in my classroom are?

• Remember that it's ok to make mistakes and revise our thinking
• Keep trying even when problems are challenging
• Share our mathematical ideas with our classmates
• Listen to understand someone else's ideas, give each other time to think

   ***I thought that it will be important to have all the norms in my classroom because all of them are important. I feel that all of these will be a great way to foster classroom community. I feel that it is also going to be important to share and community with the other teachers at my school and see if this is something that we can do at all grade levels. 

Which talk moves do I want to start using in my classroom?

• Re-voicing
• Adding on
• Wait time
• Turn-&-Talk
• Revise
• Repeating
• Have student retell what their classmates said

    ***Here again i feel that it is important o use all the talk moves, they are all going to benefit the students in different ways. These are not great because they can both guide the teacher and student talk. 

How many student teachers does it take.... 11/16

The really fun part of the day was after lunch I meet up with Jeannette, Eric, Mel, Regan, and Alicia. Eric and Jeanntte had just been told that they had to sub in library, but they had never been to library, and all the sub notes said was Read “Lion vs. Rabbit” and fill out booklet. So having no sub notes and the book that we had to read was nowhere to be found. We all got together and made a plan. I had been to library once, so that is how we planned the 30 minutes. So we all chipped in to help out. The first class happened to be the one Regan & Alicia were student teaching in, so they lead that class. The plan that we came up with was, one person would read the story to the students (Mel), then they would check out books, and then we would fill out their books. It was what happened first, middle, and end of the story (me).

I feel that overall both lessons went really well. They were put together moments before the students walked in the door. The part that I did not like was that the sub-notes were one sentence. The book was not where it said it was, and there was no one who really knew what was going on… But the six of us were able to work together and make a plan. We got both classes in and out, (for the most part on time), and the kids were really good at helping us. We did let them know that we were student teachers, and were are learning to be teachers, so if we do it differently it is cause we are still learning. 

I one things that I learned about today was that when I make sub notes I am going to make sure that they are very detailed. I would make copies of what the students are going to use, and copies of the teacher pages so the sub has something to follow. Overall it was a really fun interesting experience. 

Playing around in Scratch... 11/9

Well to start off I did enjoy making this project, even though I think it took me about 3 hours to get it done. I found it hard to put the project together, I could not find a video that really showed me how or what to do. After playing around with it for a 1 or so, I really started to get the a hang of it. Then I was going to delete one part and ending up deleting a whole section, I have never wanted to throw my computer more than ever. So after taking a break I sat back down and got it done. Over all I am happy with how it turned out. I did find it really hard to get the timing done just right....

After I had done my project, I went into my dyad placement and they had just read a time article on coding and were given a website that allowed them to practice beginning coding. I really like this website, it took them step by step on how to code. It also used the Angry birds so it was of interest to the student. They worked in pairs, which worked out really well, they learned how to bounce ideas off one another, and how to take turns. They did the 20 level lesson over two days, they were so engrossed in the program that it was really hard for them to stop and have to go to other lessons.
For those who are interested the web address is
hourofcode.com

hit the
  student [try it] button
  write you first computer program  [go]
  then try the 20 different levels!!!





Hope that you like my Project...

http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/31749534/