Monday, January 25 - Friday, January 29, 2010

Monday, January 25th

Mrs. Turner reviewed how to make a lesson plan by referring to the handout provided the week before. She talked about the requirements we are to follow when giving our presentation to the Teacher Cadets later this month (i.e. we will have 20 minutes). We then decided what grade level we wanted to teach our lesson to and began working in class with books and on computers.

Tuesday, January 26th

Although we had a shortened period, we continued to work on our lesson plans and sign up for our field experiences.

Wednesday, January 27th

This was our final in-class work day on our lesson plans.

Thursday, January 28th

Mrs. Turner taught us how to make monkey puppets for our penpals using brown paper bags and construction paper cut-outs. Many students got creative with their letters.

Friday, January 29th

We spent first period at Mauldin Elementary School in Ms. Quinn's class. To celebrate the 100th day of school, we helped our penpals string 100 Fruit Loops onto a necklace. They showed us their projects, and we talked while sharing those delicious doughnuts! Some of us even challenged the first grader Tishone to a "count off," seeing who could count to 100 the fastest. He won. No matter what. :O

Tell me, and I'll forget. Show me, and I may remember. Involve me, and I'll understand.

-- Chinese Proverb

:) Victoria Ralph