September 21 - September 25

Monday, 21st
We continued watching "Gridiron Gang."

Tuesday, 22nd
Today we finished watching the movie and did a label activity while we discussed the movie. The label activity included Mrs. Turner giving each student a label on their back and the student couldn't see it but all of the students classmates could. We had to show our classmates our label and they treated you accordingly to your label.

After the label activity we played a riddle game called "Annie is going on a picnic and is bringing an apple..." Each student was then asked what item they wanted to take on the picnic and if they brought the correct item then they could go with Annie to the picnic. To be able to go you had to say an item that started with the first letter of their name (ex: Annie taking an apple). The twister to the game was figuring out the what you needed to take. For many the activity was difficult and some didn't get it. We related this activity to the labels that student's have and live with everyday. After we learned about the barriers to education that students can have. (For example: Blindness, Dyslexia, and speech impediments.)

Wednesday, 23rd

Today we participate in "Day with a Disability." We went through several activities where we were effected by a different disabilities. Each disability station had a different disability and and a different task to do. Some of the activities included writing with Dyslexia, walking on a tap line with Blind goggles, wrapping a present with one arm, and talking with a speech impediment. Below is a video of Kirsten walking on a tape line with the blind goggles.

Disability Day Video

Thursday, 24th
Today we had a guest speaker. Mrs. Joann Timberlake from Overbrook Child Development Center came to talk about disabilities that children face with an emphasis on autism.

Friday, 25th

We discussed Mrs. Joann's visit and we were assigned a group project on Barrier Books. We were also given a book, The Acorn People, to read for homework.


Quotes of the Week:
"Education is the movement from darkness to light." -Allan Bloom
"Nine tenths of education is encouragement." –Anatole France

"Limitations only go so far." - Robert M. Hansel

(the picture from "Gridiron Gang" was borrowed from: https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4XLHLaYAgoNd_rUQFXtGg68McuQQyZ2SOyUruwa46Z3B5EIOcwqTdkCgkyqcDMLhJnhQBeGuczjaKnoQ-Fm78J8AcB5A_HUXxZZuQjLehDWwMs48Pf5KQ_MVopLOnVwFG5tRrcw/s1600/49.jpg )

September 14-18

Monday, September 14

Today the class chose our buddies from Mrs. Quin's first grade class. They were all so adorable that everyone quickly scrambled to choose a child that they had bonded with. In the end, everyone was very happy with thier pen pal and we recieved our first animal: the elephant! We described to the children a little about ourselves, like our names, ages, favortie color, etc. We also included a cartoon drawing of ourselves!

Tuesday, September 15

In class we learned about the learning styles of children and ourselves. We shared memorable stories about how visual, audio, or kinsetic teaching methods had helped us. Also Mrs. Turner taught us about Maslow's Heirarchy of Needs and how they effect a child's learning ability.

We also began the Gridiron Gang! :)

Wedesay , September 16

Senior Pictures - continued to watch Gridiron Gang and take notes about Maslow's Heirarchy of Needs

Thursday. September 17

Continued watching the Gridiron Gang

Friday, September 18

Senior Meeting

Quote of the Week:
"The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn." - John Lobbock

September 8th-11th

Tuesday, September 8th

In class, we continued to work on our puppet shows to present to Mrs. Quinn's first grade students. Everyone worked very hard. :)

Wednesday, September 9th

We finalized our puppets and everyone practiced their presentation. We all were excited for Friday.







Chelsea!













Rachel, Andrea, Kim, Kathy, and Quentin

Also, it was Kirsten's Birthday!

Thursday, September 10th

Everyone presented their puppet shows for the class and Mrs. Turner. They were all a success!

Friday, September 11th

We all drove to Mauldin Elementary, checked in, and finally presented our puppets shows to Mrs. Quinn's first grade class! Woo! Woo! At the end of every show, each group gave out prizes that represented the moral from the stories.

Inspirational Quote:

A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others. ~Author Unknown

Teacher Cadet Blog

August 31st - September 04th

Monday

We wrote our names on a white slip and then decorated them

<---- Kenzi , Kirsten, and Phillip hard at work

Joe decorating his name tag ---->

After that Mrs. Turner read Chrysanthemum to us

The theme behind the story was "self esteem"
We talked about how people can really make a positive or negative difference in your life.
We also discussed how someone's words or actions can also make a very big difference. We finalized our discussing by saying that everyone is special in his or her own way and that our names are just a glimpse of how special each of us really are.

Tuesday

Began class by going over our journals from the night before. Our assignment for the night before was to read the "Self Worth:The Pot Nobody Watches" article and the "Self Esteem Fraud" article.

We went over the differences between global and earned self esteem.
We talked about the strong influences that both parents and teachers have.

In the "Self Worth: The Pot Nobody Watches" article it talks about "pot" and whether you have your pot filled with positive or negative things.

We finished class by starting our positive pots.

Wednesday

We worked on our positive pots

Nisha, Kayla, and Lorena all working on their positive pots

Lorena and Kayla working together

Thursday

Mrs. Turner explained the puppet show performance that each group was going to preform for the Mauldin Elementary school kids.

We got into our groups and started working.

Shay, Kayla, and Nisha with their puppets

Victoria and Lisa with their puppets

Friday

We continued working on our puppet show

Everyone working on their puppet show performance


Inspirational Quote:

"Accept everything about yourself, I mean everything. You are you and that is the beginning and the end, no apologies, no regrets."
-Clark Moustakas