Thanksgiving Break!

No practicum this week due to Thanksgiving Break! Time to catch up on some homework! :)

Social Skills Lesson Plan

This week I taught my social skills lesson plan to my first graders. I decided to do a lesson based on Thanksgiving, since Thanksgiving is coming up next week! I read a story about Thanksgiving and then asked students what it means to be thankful for something. The students made a list of possible things to be thankful for, and they each wrote what they are thankful for on a paper feather. We then glued the feathers to a turkey I created and hung it up in the classroom. Lastly, students shared with their classmates what they are thankful for as the rest of the group actively listened. Overall, my lesson went really well and I really enjoyed it!

Lots of Work!

This week, I was very overwhelmed with the amount of work I had to do for my classes, but my first graders put a smile on my face and made me feel less stressed! I had a great day at observations and I feek I am really helping the students learn.
Here is a video I found which I found very inspirational:

Halloween!

This week in practicum, it was Halloween! I was very surprised when I came into my host school that the children were not allowed to dress up for class in their Halloween costumes. I remember when I was in elementary school that we had a big parade and everyone was allowed to wear their costumes to school. We also were allowed to have a big class party and everyone's parents came. In my host classroom, Halloween wasn't really celebrated, although they did do many learning activities centered around Halloween.