Out of Many, One Education

…And just like that, it is Thursday! Holy cow, these past 5 weeks have FLOWN by! Some things that happened/we did this week. Visual Arts: Fish! We made a fish in visual arts this week making sure out fish had 4 distinct parts: lips, eyes, teeth, and tails (although as I write this I’m wondering if it is just called a fin…). We made them from the leftover coffee filters that we had from our snowflake project. The kids really enjoyed it. They had some very colorful creations! To preface the lesson, I showed them my example and asked if they knew what it was. A few of them did, despite my artistic (or lack thereof) abilities. We talked about where they lived and how they move. I had them move their arm like a fish swimming. We were just generally talking about fish when out of the blue one of my student shouts, “I like fried fish” lol. It was too funny—he had us all laughing! Physical Education: Soccer Now, this, I was very excited for; soccer day in PE. ...

Well, after looking back at my pictures I realized I left out a couple of lessons that I have done while here! So this will be a catch up on all things school since I have been here. Mosaics Most consistently I have been teaching visual arts (art class) and physical education. I think it was the second week that I did mosaics with the kids. I had an outline of their name and they glued little squares of colored paper over the outline to make a mosaic of their name. I gave each of them a glue stick… that was an adventure lol. I hadn’t thought of this before but the glue sticks here are very teacher controlled as it is a resource that is expensive. So, you can imagine how curious the students were about it! I had a few students trying to put it all over their hands and some students that had no idea how it worked. It was pretty comical overall. I picked this project for a few reasons, the first was because my lesson prior focused on them writing their names. This was...

This post is very late—but better late than never, right? The days are full, long, and often without Wi-Fi! But I am going to sum up last week for you: First, my professor came and observed me teaching a physical  education lesson. We did volleyball with balloons (so students had more reaction time to it coming at them and it would hurt much less if it hit them!)  I first had them warm up with some Go Noodle videos which  they loved. We were up and moving and hot early on! Then we moved into talking about the types of hits in volleyball; serve, bump, and set (I hope Mrs.Goodman and Mr. Barron are proud of me!). We said the names several times over and I made sure each individual student knew it. Then we practiced making the motion followed by having each student practice the hit. Once we had gone through all of them we were going to pair up, go outside, and practice more. Soo…. we moved all the students outside (which is a feat for ou...