Our turn!

Finally! After a couple snow days, endless hours of work, and lots of anxious nerves, it is my fieldwork group's, group 3, turn to teach our lessons to the second grade! Our lesson is "The Colonies Become Free" which includes, the American Revolution, and the signing of the Declaration of Independence. This is a very exciting topic, and I am eager to get into the classroom and begin our lesson. 

For our direct lesson, we taught about important people in this period of history, we also taught about unfair taxes, the American Revolution, the signing of the Declaration of Independence, along with many other topics. The students were engaged throughout the lesson, and during the checks for understanding, the class was in agreement. They also enjoyed holding up their American flag response cards.

          To introduce the topic, we created a word cloud with thirty two words pertaining to our lesson. This word cloud had words that ranged from people, places, things, and events. The students did well with this, and knew a lot of the words we put into the word cloud. The rest of the direct lesson was a powerpoint, with checks for understand throughout, and then activities and independent practice at the end. 

We transitioned with a song. This was a great way to get the students involved and ready for the lesson. I sang that song once, and then asked the students to repeat with me. The kids loved it, and I think our peers enjoyed it too! This is a technology aspect we have to take advantage of! There are songs for everything. This one was only 20 seconds long, and the kids took a lot away from it. I may have been embarrassed to sing it at first but seeing the kids enjoy it as they did, it was fun! 

Both our inquiry lesson and cooperative lessons went well. We were a bit pressed for time on the cooperative but after hearing from our peers, we learned ways of bettering our time management. This was the first course at the Mount that I was able to teach to a whole class. I really enjoyed it, and I wish other courses would have this aspect, because after all, this is what we will be doing.