We Painted Pumpkins

Another activity that I took part in was bubble painting. This was where I put paint in a tray and added water. Once this was mixed properly I got the children to use a straw and blow through it to make bubbles. Once the bubbles were there a piece of paper was placed over them to create a bubble effect picture. There were two different trays of which one was purple and the other one was orange. This is so that they were able to make their own choice on what colour they wanted to use.

The reading of the life of Sally Ride appeared as a very engaging activity to me. While reading, Ms. House would allow simple questions and comments, but knew when to stop them and move on. Her students also seemed to know that when she moved on it was time to be quiet and listen. After reading, the students turned to a partner and discussed the story. This was a great way

For the math activity, I chose an activity that came from China, it is called Five-Up Dominos. The children will use their math skills and practice addition and multiplication. For the science activity, the students will do an experiment called Save the Flag. This activity teaches students how to preserve certain material such as a countries flag. For the social studies activity, the children will make a garland of flags based on a country they research.

The artifact I have chosen to attach to the discussion board was CE230 unit nine project. What I learned based on that assignment was how to develop creative activities for young children from the age of five and seven. After completing the different activities with the students in this project we had to show what were the student’s objective and what leaning experience where you trying to achieve and was it accomplished with this activity. Example after completing the activity you would indicated if the student was able to follow directions. You would observe if the child was able to correctly solve the problems and it the students showed interest in the game. I recalled when I was in grade school we played Math Bingo it was fun and educational.

I specifically like the ideas on the site that include building sight word vocabulary and the reading racetrack print out so that I can make this a game with my students. I would use these types of activities with my younger struggling students. The letter cube blending phonics activity is also an activity that I would like to incorporate into my tutoring sessions. If I already had a classroom, I would incorporate this into a centers type activity. The fluency topic about paired reading is something that I had not heard of. I think this activity would be an awesome addition to my tutoring sessions that I spoke of earlier. This is an activity that I could collaborate with their parents on so that they could carry this into the home setting. For some of my older students, I would like to incorporate some reading comprehension strategies like the oral recitation lesson. That is an activity that we can use to build on throughout the

For Show and Tell, I used the display we had put together on Planting. We planted seeds with the children as part of a Maths experiment to see how tall they would grow and be able to measure in cm's and inches. Children estimated the plants end height and recorded the information. Our Science lesson covered, talking about plants, bugs, bees and the environment. We use a similar ICT programme whereby the children send

Put all the blocks on the table or ground. Invite the students over. I will tell them that they will be building a house for a Dog today. Ask them what they think they will be using to build the house. Tell them that they will be using play dough and blocks. Clarify that pretend is not real. We can pretend to cook at the play kitchen or pretend to be a dog. Explain that mice cannot really build a house with blocks and clay. This is just pretending and the Dog they are using in their activity is pretend only. Ask the children what they like to pretend to be or do when they grow up.

One activity you can do with children involves having them make flowers. For this activity, children will need to make a stem for the flower, the middle part of the flower and pedals. On the middle part of the flower you can write an ending that a couple of words share like –ug. On the pedals, children can write the different words that end with –ug like bug, rug, mug, hug, etc. Another fun thing you can do involves using the plastic eggs that are left after Easter. The

Read the poem “Five green and speckled frogs”. Read it once out loud with them. Then pass out the little cards paper clipped together to random students. Have them find the words that match the sounds in the poems.

As we met and tried to discussed our up and coming group presentation, we tried to figure what we were going to do. As we tried to figure out a solution to our problem we begin to think. We went over a number of questions in our heads. Such as, what will align with North Carolina Essential Standards for 6-8 grade science, BIO 2302 course outline and PEA Mission? Then I thought to myself, what would I want to do for an engaging activity if I were in a 6th, 7th, or 8th grade science class. Each meeting we started to ask each other important questions. Do we want talk about ecosystems, rocks, life science, etc? Will that be engaging enough for the students? Should we do something dealing with building things?

Two or three mini-lesson ideas I have for beginning the year are that I have not implemented with teachers/students before are:

This week we are focusing on bubbles! Today during circle time, Donovan and Savar picked out one of our favorite books, “Manners Time”, by Elizabeth Verdick. We practiced our sign language and reviewed “please” and “thank you”. Then we had fun popping the bubbles in Elmo’s “Let’s Get Clean” book. After reading, we stayed out of the rain and headed to Movement Matters! Palmer and Orville were adventurous and climbed all the way to the top of the rock climbing wall! Kenley and Aarav had fun rowing their wooden boat and swaying back and forth with their friends from Sprouts 2. Back in the classroom, we suited up in bubble wrap and stomped in blue and pink paint to create some amazing bubble art! Everyone loved popping the bubble wrap!

When the class was learning how to write cursive letters. Ms. Hall likes to play games to learn the letters of the alphabet. We would get in two lines and she would say “a” and we would run up and make a cursive “a” first one to do it, wins! We also had worksheets where we would trace the letter or follow the

One of the lesson activities presented at the workshop that caught my attention, was one called cookie excavation. Cookie Excavation take 30 to 45 minutes to do and it’s about the excavation process. I would implement this lesson into an elementary setting by making it into a Mathematics lesson on plotting utilizing M&M cookies. On a number chart, the students can replicate the cookie and on another chart plot the location, using an x and y axis, of the M&M’s and chocolate chips. This will help students with plotting, coordinates, and help them become familiar with charts.

Another favorite activity is picking a story that the whole class enjoyed very much during shared reading and performing a small part out of that story using very simple props that are easily available in the classroom. We will do this activity every three weeks or so.