Third Field experience

This week I taught the third graders my reading lesson plan on sequencing in narrative texts.
The lesson went great! The book I read was "Three Billy Goats Gruff."The lesson focused on learning Exposition ( the beginning of a story),Rising Actions, Climax, Falling Actions, and Resolution. This book was a great resource to use to teach these sequences because the events that happened in the book,correlated with the sequence format that I was teaching the students. By the end of my lesson, it was obvious that the students had a strong understanding of the sequencing of narrative texts as they were able to point out the sequence of events in oter texts, without my help. If I end up teaching third grade in the future, I will definitly reuse this lesson. I really enjoyed teaching the third grade and look forward to many more oppotunities to enhance my teaching skills!

Field Study 2

I love the third grade! It is amazing to me to see how well the third graders that I have observed in my class can read and write. The workbook that I see them independently working in thoughout the day is called their DOL book. I believe it stands for Daily Oral Language. It consists of different reading and writing excerises for them to work on to develope their fluency in reading and writing.I remember the writng and reading workbooks that I had in third grade and they seemd to have similar excersises in them as well. I was very impressd with their skill levels.

I also noticed last week that Mrs. Brown, the third grade teacher, has posted certain standards around the room from lessons that they have learrned so far throughout the year. I like this idea because as you look around the room, you can see what standards have been addressed so far in the class this year. It is nice to see the large amount of topics that they have covered so far in such a short period of time.

Field Study 1

I observed the third grade class yesterday and absolulty loved it!! I observed their Monday morning meeting in which the 4th and 5th grade classes came into the third grade room. During the meeting, they discussed the improtance of being respectful to each other and to their teachers. Apparently this had been an issue that needed to be discussed. The faculty member who lead the meeting reminded the students that there was no room in the school for anyone to be disrespectful, and that they needed to treat each other like a family. I thought this was great because it reminded everyone of the importance of sticking together and being kind to one another.
After the meeting, th thirdgraders prepared to learn about contractions. Ms. Brown, the lead teacher, used a website on contractions which she displayed on the projector during the lesson.I was impressed by how quickly the students responded to the lesson and were eager to answer her questions.
Next the students pulled ot their DOL workbooks. The excersise they did in the workbook asked them to write polite responses to certain questions.For example, they had to resond to " What would you say to someone who gave you a gift?" They would have to respond by writing a full, grammatically correct sentence, with correct punctuation. I was able to help one child with this excercise. It was so rewarding to see her understand what she was supposed to do after I helped her! The smile on her face was priceless!