October 17-21

On Monday, officer K visited our class again to answer more of our questions about gangs. We also welcomed a German and a French exchanged student. We also got to eat donuts and cake in celebration of the August, September, and October birthdays in our class.

Tuesday, we got to read our giant books that we made for our froggy friends to the rest of our class. It was a lot of fun and everyone enjoyed seeing all of the different approaches that each group took to catch the children's attention.







Wednesday, Mrs.Turner talked about Piaget and his theory of the different stages of development in children. She also explained the adventure we would go on the next day!

Thursday we went on a field trip to Walmart!! We had to find toys that were specific to age groups and the developmental stage that they were in. It was a lot tougher than expected, but it was a lot of fun! (:







And finally, Friday. On Friday we discussed the toys that we found on our Walmart scavenger hunt and then came up with a list of the top ten toys for a preschool. To finish up the week we got to play a game of our choice that appealed to one of Piaget's many developmental stages!

"Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them become what they are capable of becoming." -Johann Wolfgang



"Education costs money, but then so does ignorance." -Claus Moser

"Ideal teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross, then having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create bridges of their own." -Nikos Kazantzakis

October 10- 12

Monday: Mrs. Turner was not at school :( We had a sub and finished up our projects.

Tuesday: We met at Mauldin Elementary School and showed our 1st grade friends the books we made. Also, Mrs. Turner told us where to meet for the field trip on Wednesday.






Wednesday: We met at Mauldin Elementary and went to see Junie B.Jones at Furman with our 1st grade friends:) After some of us went home, others went to go eat, and went back to school.






"All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them"
- Walt Disney

October 3- 7

Monday: Disability Day! Today we went around the classroom doing different activities dealing with different disabilities. For a service hour you could try and see how long you could make it through a regular day with a disability of your choice. Some of us could only make it to 2nd or 3rd period, but if you made it through the day good job!

Tuesday: At the beginning of class, we reflected on disability day. Then Mrs. Turner and Polly played a game called Polly’s Picnic. In order to go to the picnic you had to say that you are going to bring something that begins with the same letter as your name. Mrs. Turner read the book Stop Picking on Me, and she introduced our barrier book project. We all got into groups and started to figure out what our stories were going to be about.

Wednesday: Today was the 1st before school bucket day:) Many people forgot so everyone ended up doing buckets and working on their projects during class.

Thursday: Officer K was supposed to come to have breakfast with us, but he was sick so he didn’t come:( Instead we worked on our projects the whole class period.
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Friday: The class period was shortened because of the prep rally. We worked on our projects and decided to have another work day on Monday and Officer K to come after the break.

September 26-30

Monday and Tuesday:: We had a great start to this week because on Monday and Tuesday we were able to go out into the community to visit sites! We were able to choose to spend one day at either a rescourse / self-contained classroom and the other day was spent at Hope Academy! :)

Wednesday :: Wednesday was spent back at the high school where we picked a teacher and made them a bucket! Once the bucket was done we got to put them on their door and make little buckets telling them to write words of encouragement on their teacher friends' doors. :) Mrs. Turner was out. :'(




Thursday:: Thursday morning we had a guest speaker who talked to us about A.D.D. She gave us a more clear definition of the disability as well as the diagnosis, signs, symptoms, and treatment. She also taught us how much our discipline in the classroom can help these students learn and focus much better.

Friday:: The first thing we had to do on Friday morning was turn in our first assignment for Anderson University: the autobiography! :O Once those were turned in we were told to go to the auditorium for a meeting with Josten's. It's hard to believe this but at that meeting we recieved our information about how to order our cap and gowns! After the meeting we came back to the classroom to collect our buckets. :)