When doing my reading mini-lessons, I’ve began to notice that creating my own stories can be such a useful thing to do. I hate trying to sift through and find short stories for mini-lessons so I just decided I would start writing my own. I feel like it’s such a useful tool. I can tailor the story to the element we are covering, as well as tailor it to my class. So far, they have enjoyed and gotten a lot out of the three stories I’ve read so far. The first two were really entertaining, and the one I just wrote about a new student for “theme” was very meaningful, and I believe most of them got the message.
I also did a pretty involved activity in science today. It definitely went the way you would expect a very active activity to go the first time. The kids were excited and jittery, and I have not had the experience with it to be able to prevent some problems from happening. I was catching onto things as the period went on that I could fix for next time, and ways that I could instruct better. Luckily, my supervisor was there to reinforce things that could be improved on and point out other things, otherwise, they could have slipped my mind or gone unnoticed. I’m really glad I did that activity, which I will now refer to as experiment, while she was there because, even though it’s a risky thing to do while a supervisor is there (if you worry about that), I believe it’s a great experiment and I wanted feedback so that I could continue it in the future and make it even more powerful.
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