January 22-25

Tuesday:
Today we came back from a wonderful four day weekend!  Class began with us writing down all our important dates for February.  We were excited to find out that some of those were days with Mrs. Vaughn's class.  We will be visting our buddies in her class for the hundredth day of school, and Valentine's day.  Then Mrs. Turner taught us about Bloom's Taxonomy and gave us a handout to use on our assignment. To apply the lesson, we read children's books and made a "quiz" about the book we read using the strategies from Boom's Taxonomy.  Mrs. Turner also passed out a "webinger" hunt about the school district for us to complete in class tomorrow.

Wednesday:
Mrs. Turner wasn't here today, but had us well prepared for what to do while she was gone.  We began the class period by taking one of our classmate's quizzes that we created yesterday.  After we completed the quiz we gave them back to the person who made them and they graded it.  We worked on our "webinger" hunt for the remainder of the class period. 

Thursday:
Today in class, we learned about cooperative teaching techniques.  We also completed each of them after learning about it.  The first was Think/Pair/Share.  In this activity each student has a partner.  When the teacher asks a question you first think for 15-20 seconds, then share your answer with your partner.  The second was pairs check.  In pairs check partners will work together to answer the questions and then check them with another pair once they have completed them.  Numbered heads was our next technique.  In this activity, the class numbers off and divides into groups.  Once the students are divided, they number off again, because each time a question is asked the teacher rolls a die to see which student from each group writes down the answer.  Our next activity was jig saw.  For jig saw, the students are divided into groups again and each one reads a different article together.  After they know their article, students renumber and group up differently.  In these different groups there will be a member from each of the first groups.  Each student will share what their atricle was about.  The last activity was inner/outer circle.  In this, the class is divided in half and forms two circles, one inside the other.  The inner circle faces a partner in the outer circle.  Each time a question is asked, the inner circle answers first and then the outer circle can answer.  The inner circle rotates with each question so that the students have a new partner each time. 

Friday:
Today Mrs. Turner taught us what a lesson plan consists of and gave us a template to help us create one.  While we were listening to her explain this, we got an announcement that we would be leaving school at 10! Although we were excited about this, we had to finish the lesson.  At the end of class Mrs. Turner gave us a list of websites to use to guide us in making lesson plans.