March 20, 2017

  This week I completed my third and fourth lesson plans for class.  I must say, they are getting a bit easier to complete, since the strategies are in our books.  These strategies help me to personally set up my lesson plans so that I can help meet both my objectives and instructional goals.  In class Monday we worked with strategies in the Ruddell text, and our group was assigned the DRA strategy.  After working with this strategy to make a lesson plan as a group, I decided to use this strategy in one of my lessons. 
  In my lesson, students will be working with the standards 3.ESS2.D2: Obtain and combine inform to describe climates in different regions of the world.  Students will also be working with the standards 3.ESS2.D1, which deals with deal with vocabulary terms: average temperature, precipitation, and other related terms to help describe the climate of a particular region.  We will begin by writing these words on the SMARTboard and I will ask students to tell me what they think each term means.  Afterwards, we will work in our textbooks to learn about how meteorologist use these terms ( which we will have discussed) to tell about a particular climate.  Students will work in groups of four later in the lesson to describe the climate of an assigned area and share with the class.

The other lesson plan uses the RAFT strategy from the Buehl textbook.  This strategy can be used in so many different ways, and with all content areas.  RAFT stands for R-role, what is the role of the writer, who are you? A- audience, who are you writing to? F-Format, What form will your writing assume?  T- Topic , What are you writing about?
I chose to use the book Charlotte's Web for this lesson plan.  Students will have read through the book and will be asked to write a letter.  Students will complete a RAFT Role Definition Chart to help them figure out the personality, attitude, and information (page 175) of their character to help them know how to write, who to write to  and so on.

March 13, 2017: Lesson Plans

  This week, our task was to complete two lesson plans.  I think it's a bit easier to write these lesson plans since we have had written several lesson plans in prior classes, and we are allowed to write lessons for different content areas.  This, along with the strategies at hand, makes these lessons easier to complete in my opinion.  My lesson plans will be focused on third grade, since this is the grade level I will be presenting my lesson to.  I love this grade, they are independent enough, but they also are still sweet and innocent.  They most definitely keep me on my toes, but I wouldn't have it any other way.  This week, my first lesson will be focused on third grade mathematics.  The lesson will be on fractions, and we will be completing a math reading key bookmark (page 145 in the Buehl text) We will start off with a fun video to "hook" my students, then we will read and discuss these terms, use them, and complete the bookmark.  I don't have all the details yet, but this lesson's focus will be to help students make sense of terms that we learn about, and this bookmark will be something they will have to look back on, if  ever they find themselves needing help. 
My next lesson may be relating more to fractions, and I look forward to completing some science and social studies lesson plans as well. :-)

Janaye

March 6, 2017

  Janaye

 

 caring, determined, kind, reliable.

 

  Wife of Darryn, daughter of John and Wendy, Sister of Jason and Jessica.

 

 Lover of family, ice cream, and naps.

 

 Who feels loved, happy, and anxious.

 

 Who fears loss, rejection, and failure.

 

 Who goes to school full-time, works, and keeps up with laundry.

 

 Who would like to see Alaska, Hawaii, and peace in our nation.

 

 Resident of Iberia, Mo

 

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