Book Reflection #12-Rosa December 6, 2009

Nikki Giovanni 2007 Title: Rosa Isbn: 0-439-89884-6 Book would be good from 3rd grade and beyond to learn about Rosa Parks life. I first read this book when my niece had checked it out to do a presentation on Rosa Parks in school. This book told all about Rosa Park and the incident on the [...]

Last internship reflection December 6, 2009

The last day was sad but also exciting because I know that my career in teaching is getting closer everyday. The students were really upset to see us go. They took pictures with us, hugged us, got email addresses etc. I have already received three emails from the students begging me to come back before [...]

Book Reflection #11- Cloudy with a chance of meatballs November 24, 2009

Cloud with a chance of meatballs-title Judi Barret- author Illustrator- Ron Barrett Isbn: 0-689-70749-5 Children’s Publishing Division of Simon and Schuster 1978 Summary: Life is delicious in the town of Chewandswallow where it rains soup and juice, snows mashed potatoes, and blows storms of hamburgers- until the weather takes a turn for the worse. What [...]

Creating Reading Fluency November 24, 2009

1. What are the 3 dimensions of fluency? How can you assess each dimension? Accuracy in word decoding- The reader should be able to sound all the letters out in the word and this can be graded by how many words in each grade level the student can do correctly. (percentage grade) Automatic Processing- Mentally, [...]

Internship #4 November 24, 2009

This week was pretty good. It was a short week because of thanksgiving. I really am getting attached to the students and can see me being that teacher who cries the last day of school every year. Today was just a lot of fun. I didn’t really get to teach much because we had a [...]

Internship #3 November 10, 2009

I really adore the kids. I am really just uncertain about the teacher. I was astonished at one point in the day when the teacher proceeded to read out every students test grades in front of the glass, applauding the ones that did good on the test. She then asked each individual students in front [...]

Intern Reflection 2 November 5, 2009

Today made me feel much better than my previous experience. The teacher seemed to be in a much better mood and more patient. She did different things that made me think that she was enjoying her time there. I have come to see that the teacher is also very sarcastic, which I could have easily [...]

Book Reflection #10- Kites Sail High November 3, 2009

Kites Sail High- A book about verbs Ruth Heller ISBN- 698-11289-6 Really cute book teaching verbs through catchy phrases and illustrations. I actually learned a few things myself. It would be an engaging grammar lesson. The Putnam Berkley Group

Book Reflection #9 November 3, 2009

Many Luscious Lollipops-A book about adjetives To further a child’s understanding of the meaning and how to use adjectives, this book full of beautiful illustrations will provide a deeper understanding of how to use adjectives. The visuals are really interesting and designed to make reading more rich and fun for kids

Book reflection #8-Ruth Heller November 3, 2009

Ruth Heller Ruffin Books Published by Penguin Group Isbn- 0-698-11875-8 A book about Interjections and Conjuctions The Rhyming and pretty art work that allows the words to pop. Simple enough for students, yet still interesting for adults too.