First Week of Field Experience

We are currently at Westside Elementary School, in Ms. Schwaiger's fifth grade classroom. The diverse lessons we have learned are really helping us out with our class. This week we had elections and we were able to put together the voting boothes' for the fifth grade mock election. Ms. Schwaiger asked us to design and decorate some voting ballot boxes for the elections. We had the honor of reorganizing and categorizing by genre the two very large book shelves in her classroom. We have helped with different math groups, and had the opportunity to observe a sixth grade class. We also completed our first lesson plan and taught it on Friday. We used our digital story on Lewis and Clark and then took our class on an exploration. The lesson went extremely well. Ms. Schwaiger gave us feed back on it and expressed her feelings on how the lesson went. She said it was 110 percent. We learned we say SHHHHH to much and this doesn't help the students be quite because they have learned to block the request out. We have learned a lot of great classroom management skills and how to incorporate them while teaching.