Engaging Class

Engaging Class

Our class has been studying a lot about plants recently. The teacher I work under has been going over parts of the plants, advantages of growing them, and how to grow them. In order to really input this lesson into their minds, the teacher has decided to start a garden. This week she took them on a walk through the garden area of the school. She taught them during this time about the envirmornt, climate, and best locations and times to start the garden. The class decided to start growing bell peppers and herbs. 

Another time, our class was having a hard time following the rules during lunch time. The teacher had tried talking to them, rewarding only the good behavior ect., but nothing seemed to be working. In order to show them the way they were behaving was not correct, her and I preformed a skit showing the bad behavior and asking what we were doing wrong. The children responded positively to the skit identifying all of the wrong behavior. That day during lunch, they acted exemplary during lunch time. 

A couple of months we studied fish. This month we are took a field trip to the Living Planet Aquarium. The children loved looking at fish and identifying the part of the fish and the types swimming around. This was a great way for them to apply the knowledge they learned. 

The teacher was giving a spelling lesson. The lesson to me was really boring, I even fell asleep in it... The lesson just consisted of going over the spelling words. Thats it. If I had been giving the lesson, I think I would have added an element of fun to the lesson. No one really likes spelling anyways. It could have been really fun to have incorporated shaving cream. While teaching the new words, if the children could have spelt them in shaving cream rather than just writing the in their writing books, they could have been more engaged and having more fun.