Language Arts

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In this blog I'm going to be talking about language arts and how it is imputed throughout my classroom that I am in for methods. If you don't already know my placement is West Union elementary and I have 1st graders and let me just say each and everyone of them are amazing! Its crazy how close you get to each and everyone of them in such a short period of time. 

So when it comes to language arts its my favorite subject especially when it comes to early childhood beacuse there are so many fun lesson and activities you can do with your class. At my placement we do language arts throughout the whole day, One of the thing we do in class that my students really enjoy is reading. We always start the day off with reading to the class sometimes we chose a student to pick a book or the teacher chose. While the teacher reads she ask the students questions throughout the whole story the students love that. 

Another thing about my class is they are the lowest level functioning 1st graders in that grade level. I have students who don't know how to write there names or do the alphabet so we practice that everyday. After we do our morning reading we break up into our groups and the students move from center to center. Each center has different things that they have to do some examples of things we do is one center will have computers and they will work on Reading Horizons, another center will be practicing the alphabet, a reading center, and a worksheet center. Each group differs with students a group could be very low and one could be very high functioning, each group has a name such has the rainbow fish's or the shark group so each student knows where to go. The center that I am at is the worksheet center this past week I worked with students on there "r" blends and they enjoyed it. 

Those are just a few things that we have worked on in class and there is so much more I could go on for days . I really enjoy watching each student grow as a learner it sure is amazing and I know by the end of the year each student will make so much progress and I cant wait to see that. Thanks for reading my blog!

Soical Studies

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Welcome to my Blog this week I'm going to be talking about where I see social studies in my methods placement. I am placed at West Union Elementary and I have 1st graders and I absolutely love it! There hasn't been much social studies being taught throughout the classroom just yet but there has been a few things. One thing that we have done so far in the classroom is the students each were given a picture with something on it such as "run in the hallway" or  "be nice to your friends", they had to place the picture on the good choice or bad choice side. This is a great thing for students to visually see what good choices look like and what does bad choices look like. Another thing we have done in class is how or what does good and bad behavior look like on the school bus, they were given a picture of a kid doing something good/bad and that had to color it and write a sentences about it. They also brought in a bus called Buster the Bus and he showed how to act on the bus and bus safety look like "look both ways when crossing the street". You can relate these lessons to your everyday life making good and bad choices are something your are faced with everyday, so for 1st grade I think these lesson are good examples to show. Right now we are doing a lot of math and language arts, there are many lessons where I could incorporate social studies, the students love to be read to so I could read them a information text about someone such as Johnny Apple Seed and then we can talk about it.