Tuesday, October 20, 2015

My First Day as an Intern

For a link to the prompt on Mrs. Kallas's blog click here.

My first day as an intern was fantastic. I am placed at Walker Creek Elementary in Kindergarten with Mrs. Becraft who just so happens to be my neighbor. This is her fourth year teaching Kindergarten total and her first year with WCE. Click here to go to Mrs. Becraft's webpage on Walker Creek's website. For my first day, I wore my black polo with an apple logo that said I am a student intern. When I first walked into my class, I felt so happy and excited. The kids were watching a video on colors and none of them could stop looking at me. After they finished the video Mrs. Becraft let me tell the kids a little about myself and what I was going to do in their class. Going to my class on my first day made me fell stress free and excited because I finally get to do something I want to do in school. I am looking forward to making a connection and changing the lives of all the kids in my class.


Here's a picture of my mentor teacher, Mrs. Becraft, and her family:
Mrs. Becraft's Info Page

Tuesday, October 6, 2015

Reading Rocks!

For a link to the prompt on Mrs. Kallas's blog click here.

I choose Hop on Pop written and illustrated by Dr. Seuss. This book would be good for ages Kindergarten through second grade.





A few words that I would key in on are:

Upside down
Bumped
Yelp
Tomorrow
Today

Some higher level reading questions I would ask Kindergarteners are:

Why would Pat not want to sit on the cactus?
Why is it surprising that fish would be in a tree?
Why would Pop not want to be hopped on?
Can you sit on a bat? Why or why not?

As an activity to follow the reading of this book, I would have the students choose two words that rhymed and have them try to make a sentence with their words.

The following is a video of someone reading Hop on Pop in a singsong manner: