Week 10: Ninth Day in the Classroom
Date: Sunday, November 7th, 2021
By: Monica Schrank
This week was my third
day of teaching the students, which was about the ocean habitat, specifically
the three ocean zones. I was a little worried about this lesson because I was
unsure if the students would be interested or would understand the ocean zones,
their characteristics and the creatures that belong in the different ocean
zone. However, I was blown away that when I first introduced the ocean zones to
the students, a few of the kids already knew what the ocean zones were called
which made me feel so excited because they had this prior knowledge. As I
continued to teach the students about the different characteristics of the
ocean zones, they were so interested and excited that they kept asking me
questions and talking about them. This made me feel so excited because they
were not only learning more information but they were also teaching me and the
other students what they knew about the different characteristics of the ocean
zones. For my guided practice, I provided three short movie clips from the
movie Finding Nemo that showed each of the three different ocean zones
and creatures that belonged in each of those zones. The students had to guess
which zone was being shown in the movie clip which they loved because it
allowed them to visually see what these ocean zones looked like. It also made
learning fun for them because it was a movie clip that they have all seen
before so it allowed them to make that connection. I truly enjoyed teaching my
science lesson about the ocean zones to the students this week because they
were so engaged and willing to learn. Because of this, I wish I could have kept
teaching them more about the ocean zones since they were so interested about
the ocean habitat, the three zones’ characteristics, and creatures that belong
in each of those zones.
For Daily 5 this week I
got to meet individually again with three groups of students. The students were
practicing turning singular nouns into plural nouns which they have learned
before but were reviewing. The students reviewed that a singular noun is one
item and a plural noun is more than one item. The students were learning about
the rules of turning a singular noun into a plural noun by just adding an 's'
to the end. However, the students were struggling with the rule of if the word
end in a 'x', 'z', 's', 'sh', and 'ch', then you add 'es' to the end of the
word. To help the students, I asked them to pronounce the words that you add an
'es' to the end, and then pronounce that same word with an 's' at the end. For
example, boxs and boxes. By having the students saying the word, they
understood that the word box with an 's' did not sounds right but it sounded
right with the 'es' at the end. The students were using the pronunciation trick
that I taught them to explain to me that the word needed an 's' instead of an
'es' and vise versa. The students really enjoyed this lesson and wanted me to
come up with words and ask them if they should add an ‘s’ or
‘es’ to the end of the word
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