February 14-18

Monday
Happy Valentine's Day! We went to Mauldin Elementary to do Valentine's Day activities with our little buddies. They made the heart people that we cut out the pieces for last week, and we helped them write Mad-lib style letters. They were really cute and many of them told us about how excited they were to go on our Children's Museum field trip together. It was camo day and we all talked about how we felt silly being dressed up in the elementary school.


Tuesday
We planned to continue doing lesson presentations on this day, but due to technical difficulties Maddy had to reschedule. We had to improvise and decided to do our teacher of the month door signs a day early. We made them with a February/Valentine's Day theme in mind to let all the teachers know how much we love them!

Wednesday
Today we picked back up with lesson plans. First Alex taught us about food groups. It was a elementary level lesson focusing on classifying animals into herbivores, carnivores, and omnivores. Even as seniors, some of us were suprised by the eating habits of certain animals, and we learned something new. Then Chelsea went really fast because we didn't have much time left. She had a great lesson about weather for young students and special ed classes. Her lesson was very interactive and easy to understand, and we wished that we could have played more Simon Says!

Thursday
Miriam started the day with a lesson for elementary level students using tangrams. We listened to a story and then we got to make lots of different shapes with our tangrams, which was fun. Next, Maddy was able to "sub" and taught us her lesson. She taught us about cause and effect. Everyone liked her activating strategy of calling out Stephanie, and we also liked the Jack and the Beanstalk story. Mrs. Turner even showed it to her fourth period because she thought it was cute! We were glad that Maddy finally got to do her lesson.

Friday
Friday was the last day of Spirit Week, and the stress that some of our Teacher Cadets were experiencing because of it. Maddy had not quite finished her lesson on Thursday, so first she went and recapped her lesson from the day before and brought it to a close. Then it was Leigh Anne's turn to teach us about adjectives. Leigh Anne had a great activating strategy of asking us to draw monsters, and then comparing how the monsters all looked different because the drawing instructions didn't include enough adjectives. It was an engaging lesson and one that elementary aged students would probably really enjoy.

"I cannot teach anybody anything; I can only make them think."
-Socrates

February 7th-11th

Monday:
We worked in the computer lab on the lessons that we have been creating.

Tuesday:
We continued working in the computer lab on the lessons that we have been creating.

Wednesday:
We began teaching the lessons that we made to the class. Kate taught us about the branches of government. Then Stephanie taught us how to tell time using big clocks on the Promethean board, and gave us a worksheet to do.

Thursday:
We continued teaching the lessons to the class. Katie taught us the colors in Spanish. Once we learned how to say the colors, we all said the colors together. Then we did a cookie activity, where she would say a color and we would have to tell her what color it was then we put that color icing on the cookies. Then Ashlyn taught us about Greek "city-states". The class was very engaged in this lesson.

Friday:
We cut out the "heart-men" for our buddies to put together on Valentine's Day, and we made them Valentines cards that we are going to give to them.

"Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one"
-Malcolm Forbes

January 31- February 4

Monday- On Monday, we began the week by starting off in the library searching through educational websites to look for lesson plans we could use for our field experience and peer lessons we will be teaching to the class.

Tuesday- We began to learn about the promethean board activities in the computer lab. Mrs. Turner taught us how to use certain applications like the magic ink and how to take a picture of the something online and upload it straight to our slides.

Wednesday- A couple of the students were gone on a student council field trip, but the other cadets continued to learn and play around more with the promethean boards

Thursday-On Thursday, we went and visited our littles at Mauldin Elementary School! We were visiting because it was the 100th day of school. We split up into groups with our littles and helped each of them count 100 fruit loops to make a necklace to wear for the rest of the day. Some of the cadets made a necklace for themselves too!

Happy Birthday Elizabeth !!!!!

Friday- On Friday, we continued to work in the computer lab. Some of the cadets began creating their lessons they will have to teach to the class in a couple of weeks. We are using the different tools Mrs. Turner has taught us, so we might be able to use these lessons in our actual field experience.

Quote: "Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them."

-John Ruskin