10/14/10 Lessons

Group 1-Healthy Eating 

This was a great practical lesson about learning how to live a healthy lifestyle. Your teaching was informed by DLT by putting out concrete examples of the different food groups. The polling website was also good way to be informed by SLT. However, I don’t think it was the best choice to have so much candy on the table because it didn’t really proportionally represent the “eat sparingly” portion of the food pyramid. Don’t get me wrong, I liked eating the candy, but it might have taken away from the message that you were trying to convey. Also some more question oriented group discussions could have been beneficial in this lesson.

Group 2-Homophones  

I like how you let us explore and come up with our own homophones. Also the riddles you gave us required us to be active mentally engaged by trying to figure out a homophone that satisfied the riddle. Maybe at the end you could give us a worksheet that shows us all the homophones you came up with. This would show how many homophones there really are and how we may use them on a daily basis without even thinking about it. Also it would be good to explain why it is relevant to be aware of all the different homophones (tie in some motivation).

Group 3-Story about Respect 

It was cool that that you made the whole class sat down.  The (Dragon/Princess) story was interesting and grabbed my attention. Asking questions between pages was also a very great idea. I think next time you could even used some more challenging questions that would require a little thinking. Instead of asking questions that have a definite answer maybe ask some questions that could have some differing answers. For example: How do you think the princess is feeling? or if you were in the princess’s shoes what would you do? Questions like these might spark some conversations and require the students to think about the thinking that goes before the actions. Start encouraging the development of schemas and connections even at a young age (this has to be done with scaffolding of course).

Group 4-Alphabet Game

This was a great activity for young students. It was good that you had a poster to remind us of the order of the alphabet, and it reminded us what all the capital and lower case letters look like. Good lesson for kids to get up out of their seats, and this lesson incorporated friendly competition coupled with learning. I think at the end of the lesson you could do a better job of getting back to the practical applications of the alphabet. Not sure how to go about this, but it's just an idea. (CVT-connecting alphabet to all areas of life)