February 18-22

Monday, February 18

Presidents’ Day so no school!

Tuesday, February 19
Yay for a three day weekend and now back to my favorite class of the day, Teacher Cadets! Today Rebeccah Gerlach geared up to talk about double digit numbers. Her essential question was: Can you add numbers in order to make a double digit number? And the answer is yes and by learning this, we demonstrated with dominoes. A domino was a good tool to use because it showed vertical and horizontal addition and how with both, you get the same answer! Then it was Maggie Ambrose’s turn to talk about the American Revolution. She broke down the differences between the Patriots and the Loyalists. The Patriots supported America’s independence from Britain while the Loyalists were loyal to the king (hence the name “loyal”lists). I enjoyed guessing which of the two said which quote, even though some were pretty tricky!

Catherine working with Dominoes

Patriot or Loyalist?

Wednesday, February 20

Today Anna Reeps set up her presentation on meteorology. At first, she stated how meteorology isn’t the study of meteors, but instead the study of the atmosphere. She asked Alex Dawson to go look out the window and tell how the weather was. Then she handed us coloring sheets and told us to color the elements that represented how it was outside. I enjoyed the visual reenactment of how a Doppler Radar operates and learned who D.O.T. workers were (Department of Transportation). Next was Olivia Baddley’s turn to talk about the ocean. According to Olivia, the ocean covers over three quarters of the Earth! She then read us two books about the ocean, but my favorite part would have been when we searched in the sand bucket for seashells!

Doplar Radar

Thursday, February 21

Today was Frannie Erb’s time to present! Her lesson was on music and she even brought a guitar! We began by brainstorming what we already know about reading musical notes. Frannie then took us step by step into explaining how music notes go from A-G and where they are located on a musical staff. I enjoyed coming up with goofy acronyms to try to remember FACE and EGBDF. Next was Olivia Hodge’s turn to talk about penguins.  She started out with a poem describing a penguin and we had to guess what her presentation was about. She then named the five types of penguins (Adelie, Chinastrap, Gentoo, Emperor, and Macaroni) and based their differences by how they look. My favorite part would have to have been making the penguins out of construction paper!

Friday, February 22

Today I went to Pocketful of Miracles to check out my upcoming field experience. When I arrived, I was escorted to Mrs. Chris’ K4 classroom where I met about 15 or so preschoolers. They seemed very excited to see a guest and couldn’t help but show off. I introduced myself to the class and then each boy and girl stood up and told me their names. Once everyone knew each other, I helped Mrs. Chris pass around breakfast, which included juice/water and biscuits with jam. With the kids munching away and quieting down, I had time to go around to every table and chit chat a little so I could get to know them better. I found out that majority of them have a sibling that goes to Mauldin High and how much they love having sleepovers. I then had the class pick out a couple of their favorite books and gather around on the carpet. After I read Lyle Lyle Crocodile, 9:15 struck and it was time for me to head back to Mauldin. I look forward to doing my field experience at Pocketful of Miracles!

(in the meantime.... Saige taught about the Holocaust.  Manuela taught about inference v. observation, and Laura taught us CHINESE!)

Quote:

“Now, I'd like you to step forward over here. They're not that different from you, are they? Same haircuts. Full of hormones, just like you. Invincible, just like you feel. The world is their oyster. They believe they're destined for great things, just like many of you, their eyes are full of hope, just like you. Did they wait until it was too late to make from their lives even one iota of what they were capable? Because, you see gentlemen, these boys are now fertilizing daffodils. But if you listen real close, you can hear them whisper their legacy to you. Go on, lean in. Listen, you hear it? Carpe...hear it?...Carpe. Carpe Diem. Seize the day boys, make your lives extraordinary.”

 –John Keating, Dead Poets Society