Fall+2011-Practicum

__**Fall 2011 Practicum- 3rd grade at Dutch Valley Elementary School Clinton, Tn**__ School Website Link @http://www.dves.acs.ac/

Dutch Valley Elementary is located in a rural farming community in Clinton, Tennessee. The first school was built nearby in 1840 and was a log building. Shortly after the civil war it was destroyed by fire. In 1889 the campus was built on the grounds where it is now. For this current school year 2011-2012 their are 130 students enrolled from kindergarten through fifth grade. I have third grade with Mrs. Lowe, and she has thirteen students, 3 boys and 10 girls, in her class.The school looks really small from the outside, but once inside it is much bigger. When you come in the front doors the cafeteria is on the right and the office is straight ahead. Most of the classrooms are down the hall to the left. Their is a separate building with three classrooms for kindergarten, first grade, and intervention classrooms. I have never seen a completely separate building within the school before, it was neat. Mrs. Foust, the principle, is talking about changing the grades in that building next year. My classroom was well organized with a table in back for group work, and two bookcases with individual baskets labeled by the category the book belongs to. Their is not a lot of technology so far in the classroom, mainly just an overhead projector.

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Lesson Plan
 * Language Arts**

Nursery Rhyme Worksheet- to be displayed on the board through computer to work together as a class. Play poem and My Action Verb Poem worksheet. @http://www.superteacherworksheets.com/actionverbs/play-poem-actionverbs.pdf

Pictures of students completing the activity. media type="custom" key="11264762"

Reflection on my performance during the lesson.

Lesson Plan
 * Math**

This web 2.0 tool is my presentation and vocabulary lesson tied together. media type="custom" key="11235450"

Number games- online virtual manipulative, using gumballs to guess probability. @http://www.kidsmathgamesonline.com/numbers/probability.html Race to the top activity Formative Assessment Question- Sticky notes

Pictures of students completing the activities.

media type="custom" key="11375720" Reflection on my performance during the lesson. Science box wiki page http://science-in-a-box-sound.wikispaces.com/
 * Science**

Activities Sound is vibration lesson- Used tuning forks and ping pong balls to see the vibrations from the tunking fork causing the ball to bounce away from the vibrating fork. Had a cup of water to put the vibrating tuning fork against to see the vibrations move the water and create ripples or splattering. Wooden rulers were used to make mini ukelele and hear the different pitches as the pencil was moved up and down the ruler. Ruler was also used to put on the edge of the desk and tap the end to watch the vibration and hear the different pitches it made as the student ajusted the rulers length to the desk. I also used mystery sound boxes for the students to guess what was in each box by using their prior knowledge and how they made sounds to guess between 4 different objects. Slinky sound lesson- I used a slinky and tied two paper cups to the middle of it for the students to hear the vibrations moving through the string. I also tried this using a metal hanger. I also made a paper phone and let each student talk into the cup and another listen. This went through each child so they could also hear how voices travel through the use of vibrations. We also made an onomatopoeia poem on the board.

Pictures of students completing the activity

media type="custom" key="11375890" Formative assessment : A picture is worth 1,000 words.

Reflection on my performance during the lesson.

Reflection on my observation from Dr. Martin


 * Social Studies**

Lesson Plan Power Point- Presentation Pictures of students completing the activity media type="custom" key="11375710"

Reflection of my performance during the lesson.