Oct 29th

Today in class we talked about the play She Stoops to Conquer. We were slipt up into group to video tape something related to the play. My group planned to go around campus asking people what they look for in a partener. Just like kate from the play. We found that boys were more open to answering our questions. I wonder what other groups planned to do. My group took a different approach then must other groups did i think. We did not really make a movie more of a documentary. I notice that if you are more outgoing people respond to that. The more we talked to people the more likely they were to answer our question for us. That we work together as a group and came up with some great ideals. Next class i am looking forward to seeing what our video looks like and the outcomes of the other groups. I think it was really good to get out of the classroom and do something different. I am looking forward to see what the class thinks about my groups ideal was good. I really enjoyed class i thought it was fun and got me involed in class.

Have you ever spent time with an adult with a cognitive or developmental disability? if yes, describe and explain.
No i have not work with any adults with either cognitive or developmental disability.

Learn and Serve Five

Today at learn and serve student to a assmbly to hear the author Peggy Thomas speak. Mrs. Thomas wrote the book the "Snow Dance" and read it to them. The student enjoyed hearing the book. At the end she taught the students the snow dance that the little girl in the book did. Next the student got an suprised visit from Sabretooth the mascot for the Buffalo Sabres. He came to visit the student to congradulate them on finishing there summer reading. They will be recieving a gift from the Sabres for completling there reading. Once we got back to the classroom Mrs. Johnson and i had planned that i would read a book to the student she gave me a book a i read it before i was to read it to them. While i was doing this Mrs. Johnson got the student started on working with long e and short e. The students did work out of the workbooks. What the students had to figure out whether the world that they had and the picture that they had had a long e or a short e in it. I went around with Mrs. Johnson to help make sure that the student were putting the words and the pictures in the right spot. Finally i read the book to the students called "Something from Nothing". This book was about a little boy who was giving a specail blanket from his grandfather and as he grew older and the blanket did. His grandfather we make something out of the material that was okay to us. At the end of the story you learn that you cant make something from nothing. As you look at the picture in the book it is a story in the a story. The is picture underth the words with mice who use the fabric that is cut off each time the grandfather makes something new. Showing that the things that the grandfather could not use was made out of something for the mice. The students in the class really like the story. Mrs. Johnson told me i did a great job explaine to the students what was going on in the book.

Week 8 post

What are the top three things when working with parents?

Before the movie



I feel that when talking to parnets you need to understand there backgrounds. What type of job they have and many other things. You also need to know how much involed they are in there childs school life. Also when talking to parents you should be perpared for any questions that they have about their child. Make sure that you know about their child parents want to hear the good thing about how the kid is doing in school. If feel that it is very imporant to make the parnet feel welcome in your class.



From the movie

During class we watched the video "School commiunaction: With Parent teacher confesses. After watching the movie I learned a lot more about meeting with parents. Have the childrens work so that you can so them how they are doing. The teacher in the video was talking about what thing to ask the parnet when you are meeting with them. Ask question about what is going on at home. Ask the parents if the student is doing there work if they are getting their work done in time. Talk to the parents about how the student act at home if the are well behaved. Also if the student is having problems at school this is your chance to talk to the parents and come up with plans that will help the student at school and home.Show progression. Show work from the start of the school year up to the meeting with the parent.

Learn and Serve Fourth

Today at my learn and serve i learned from Mrs. Johnson that one on the girls in the class has leukemia. I learned that due to chemotherapy she has a learning disablitiy. As i work this this student during the class she told me that she had to go see the doctor to make her bad blood go away. I was so sad when she said this to me but i thought about how strong she is. She comes to school every day and deals with her disease. Also at learn and serve the class read the book "Dear Mr. Blueberry". The students were asked to write Mr. Blueberry about whales and any questions that they had. The students had many different question from where do whales live to how long to whales live. Next time i go to learn and serve Mrs. Johnson is having me read a book to the students and come up with questions to ask the students.

Week 7 Quiz-

What kind of activity is this?
This is a threapy



What does it enable students to understand?
To understand that you have to read something before you do. That student with LD have trouble with task like this because it is very stressful for them.



How does it provide a way to make “flexible” grouping?
You can but students in groups based on what you are working. You can put students that need extra help with students that could help them out. You can also plan the groups based on what you think would be easier for certain students and harder for others.






What does a workshop model like this enable teachers to do?
It enables teachers to walk around the room and talk to students to see what they understand. It also enables the teacher to work with students who need extra help. It also gives the teacher to move around the room and listen to what students have to say.



What kind of activity is this?
I feel that this activity was interactive.

How does it challenge you?
You have to know to know the information that you are putting on the board. You need to be able to find information in the text book and know where it is.

What background knowledge are you using to complete this activity?
You need to know how the students are affected by the disablitiy that they have and what are the different types of disabilties.

How much do you love this Blackboard compared to the other Blackboard?
This blackboard is much easier to us the the blackboard online. I dont have to struggle with techanogly.


She Stoos to Conquer:

What kind of activity is this?
This activity is both an interactive activity as well as an group work activity.

How does it challenge you?
That you do not understand the play and the charaters that are in the play. You may need help with finding images and finding picture and music that go with the play.

Who is our “audience” and what do they like?
My audience is a group of students and to keep the enage i would make connection to them in the play.


What kind of music, images, sounds?
Up beat music, then maybe some sad music.

Podcast Prefection

What kind of activity is this?
Interactivy activity and movement

How does it challenge you?
Getting my webcam to work.

What background knowledge are you using to complete this activity?
You had to take picture when we were on a hike and upload them to your compture and save them to talk about the picture.

Week 6

After watching the video from class i would so my students this to so them that i was pushed to do thing that i was not so used to doing. That if you dont worry about what other think about you because you are all doing the same thing then it is easier. I feel that this class was very fun it kept me a wake the whole time. I think that student would like when things a change from the everyday normal schedual to having a guest come in and speak to them. I would use this in my class make a video of what we did. I like how we can look back on this class and see what we did.

Learn and Serve Three

At my third learn and serve i got there and Mrs. Johnson had me correct there homework for the night. It was about what words should be capitalized in book titles . Must students understood that the first word needed to be capitalized but did not realize that words that were important in the title should be capitalized as well. Then the students went to work on the comptures with there games called Fast Foward. There are a number of different games that work with the students to find matching sounds, what came first, and so on. I feel that these games help the student learn more because they could see what they are getting wrong and what they are getting right. The last thing i saw was the student work on math word problems. Mrs. Johnson dissucussed the differences between a word problem and a number problem. Mrs. Johnson should the students this website on the Smart Board which has many different word problems on it. Just before we left me and Mrs. Johnson talked about me teaching a lesson to the students. I am looking foward to teaching the student the lesson.

Learn and serve Two

At my second learn and serve, the student first did there morning work also called bell work. The student were giving the number 15 and had to figure out what addition problems would get them 15. I thought this was a great way for student to learn how to add. Next the Mrs. Johnson had the student work on money and how many pennies, nickles, dimes, and quarters it would take to make 15. Some of the student struggle with this because they did not realize that you did not have to use every single coin. Next the student went to the computer room to work a different games that help the memory and sounds as well as math.