Jessica's Room

Third Grade

2005-10-24T12:27:00.000-07:00

Last week I started my internship in the third grade at Dunwoody Elementary school. My supervising teacher is very nice and in actually a graduate of the Georgia State University undergraduate education program so she knew exactly what I needed to do when I got there. The kids are pretty good too. We only have 15 students and one leaves for ESOL for the majority of the day. In the morning we start off with Language Arts. This lasts from 8:30 until about 10:15/10:30. This is when they do guided reading and workboards. Next week, I start leading a guided reading group as part of my guided reading project for Language Arts. I'm working with the Orange group. After that, they do writing workshop and they create stories inculding full paragraphs. An introduction, three main paragraphs, and a conclusion. After this, the students go to math class. This is when they switch to different classrooms so that everyone in the class in on the same math level. The students that come into Mrs. Gutlay's room are the one level math kids. After this they go to specials, then lunch, then social studies. Finally, the have recess and then its time to go. The morning goes by pretty slowly but after lunch and specials, the day goes by pretty quickly. I was very nervous when I found out that I was placed in a third grade classroom but its really not that bad!

Telling time!

2005-10-10T12:41:00.000-07:00

During my last lesson, we worked on telling time using the hour hand. These kids are so smart!

Management skills

2005-09-26T12:31:00.000-07:00

This week, my supervising teacher unleashed the class to me for about 30 minutes to see how I would handle them while I taught my lesson. Let me tell you, it was very difficult. I was teaching a lesson on word endings: -ed, -ing, and -s. I had the entire class join me on the floor with their dry erase boards, markers, and sock (to erase with). They were very distracted by the boards and it was very hard to get their attention. Eventually, I was able to use the clap method to get their attention, I finished the lesson and had them go back to their desks to write sentences on lined paper using the endings we practiced on the dry erase boards. Hopefully this management stuff will get easier but I guess practice makes perfect.

My First Blog

2005-09-12T13:25:00.000-07:00

Welcome to my room! I'm so excited about it! I will be filling this blog with my experiences in my field placements throughout my undergraduate semesters at Georgia State University. I am in my second semester in the Early Childhood Education Program and am interning in a first grade classroom at Sope Creek Elementary School. I am having so much fun and I am learning so much! I will be putting lesson plans, experiences, and pictures on my blog throughout my semester internship. Enjoy!