This past Wednesday I taught my 4th lesson on Earth Day. Earth Day will be celebrated next Thursday, April 22. In my lesson I chose to read Dr. Seuss' book "The Lorax."This was a great book to use because it focused on what can happen to the environment if it is not taken care of. The class seemed to really be into the book and the lesson as a whole. I believe that this was the best lesson that I did in which I basically had the whole class engaged the whole time. I was so excited to see how interested the class was in, in learning about why we celebrated Earth Day, and what we could do to help celebrate it. In order to asses the students' knowledge on what I had just finished teaching them, I had them write in their journals about the things that the Earth provides us that they are most thankful for and why did they think these thinks were so important to them? I had the class share their journal entries if they wanted to. The ideas they wrote down were wonderful! I could tell that they really thought hard about what to write down. At the end, I had them make a class book that was filled with their ideas on how to they could celebrate Earth Day on Thursday. One little boy really impressed me when he said that he had noticed that there was a lot of trash around the Bi-Lo grocery store where he lived. He said that on Earth Day he was going to ask his parents to take him there so he could clean it up! When the book was finished I stapled the cover that I had made to the front of their "idea" pages, and I gave it to Mrs. Marti to keep. They loved the fact that they had made their very own class book!
This was definitely one of my favorite lessons that I taught. I believe that over the semester I have become more and more comfortable with writing lesson plans and teaching them. I really really enjoy being in the classroom , and I can't wait to be a teacher!!
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Hey Liza,
ReplyDeleteThat sounds like an awesome lesson. I love that you made them a book. I have never read, "The Lorax", so I will definitely have to do so since I have heard from you and others that it is great for teaching about the environment. For some reason I find some of Dr. Seuss's books difficult to read (I am not refering to, "The Cat in the Hat", or "Hop on Pop"-thank goodness or I think I would have a serious problem) but other ones are like reading a book full of tung-twisters and I get nervous whenever I have to read them aloud.
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Liza, this sounds like a great lesson! I think having the students make the class book was a great idea because you get to see what they've learned, and they are always so proud of having their own book that they made in class.
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