I can’t believe that it is already my last week of student teaching. It went by so quickly and I am going to miss “C School” and our Grade 5 class so much! I was originally feeling very ambitious and had considered finding a resource for each one of our students… until I realized that we had 28 students (54 if I counted our other 5/6 class)! So in the interest of my sanity, I found 15 great new resources; one for each week I have been doing these posts! I’ll be adding them to my list of favourite… Read More
1st Reaction to Whole Brain Teaching
I had to share this story with you because it just made me laugh. Every few days our students have art class with the other 5/6 split teacher while my teacher and myself teach the other class gym. While a few days ago the 5/6 split teacher had to leave early to attend an appointment so she asked me to supervise our class during art for the last 10 minutes of the day (they were just finishing up an assignment so there was no work involved). The last class of the day, however, is always pretty chaotic for our… Read More
Resources to Start Off Your Week 14
It is the SECOND LAST week of student teaching! As much as I am loving being in the classroom and teaching, days like today, with plus 25 degrees Celsius weather, have me counting down the days until we are on summer vacation and my fiance and I can move back home. To get through the last two weeks I’ve found some great new resources to start off your week! 1 ) What About Me? Intel Infographic– The Intel website now has a tool that allows users to create a personal infographic about themselves using information from one of… Read More
Off the Map and Back Again!
After a few days of ignoring my email, blog, twitter, facebook…. well just the computer in general, I am now back! I found that with student teaching, working two jobs and going to the gym I was really letting myself get burnt out; I needed a few days of catch-up time. So after a few days of meetings, laundry, catching up with friends and A LOT of sleep I am back and ready to go! Student teaching is going by so quickly it seems. I will be finished up on May 4th even though it seems like I… Read More
Resources to Start Off Your Week 13
I can’t believe that my student teaching placement is almost finished up! Although I have loved being in Grade 5 and having an opportunity to teach Science, my love will always be Social Studies. Here are some great resources to start off your week that could be the perfect addition to your social studies class! Remember, I will be adding these to my Favourite Websites page so ensure you head over there to check out the full list that I’ve complied so far. 1 ) Standford Primary Document History Lessons– This websites allows access to 70+ free history… Read More
Titanic's 100th Anniversary
This weekend is the 100th Anniversary of the Titanic’s sinking. If you are as fascinated with the Titanic as I am I strongly urge you to check out Larry Ferlazzo’s blog! He has put together one of the most comprehensive lists of Titanic resources that I have found. http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2012/03/15/the-best-sites-for-learning-about-the-titanic/
Random Acts of Kindness
I have to share this story about one of the students in our class… Last week we were holding an in-class badminton tournament during our phys-ed classes. It was a regular bracket-style tournament where they played doubles games with an opposite-sex partner that was chosen randomly before the tournament started. When the time came for the finals we decided to hold off until the next gym class so that all of the students could watch the final games. Now remember how competitive some students are in Grade 5. This tournament was all that the students were talking about… Read More
Whole Brain Teaching Wednesday: "C School" Update
After patiently waiting for more science classes (we don’t have science everyday) I am finally able to give you all an update about how whole brain teaching has been going with our Grade 5s. Compared to my last student teaching placement in the fall I am teaching much less, but spending more time with our group of students. In the fall I was teaching more than one subject (Grades 10-12 for hour long classes) but only had a group of students once per day. In contrast, I am now just teaching one subject (Grade 5 for 25-30 minute… Read More
Resources to Start Off Your Week 12
Now that I’ve begun to use Google Reader more efficiently I’ve been able to actually keep track of the blogs I want to follow. Yay! That means I’ve been able to find out about a whole bunch of awesome new resources to start off your week! Remember, I will be adding these to my Favourite Websites page so ensure you head over there to check out the full list that I’ve complied so far. 1 ) Storyline Online– This website features videos of children’s books being read aloud by members of the Screen Actor’s Guild! Who wouldn’t want to listen… Read More
Another Spring Giveaway!
It seems to be the season for giveaways! It is Easter weekend…. who says teachers can’t load up on the goodies too? Last weekend I posted about the great giveaway Teaching Blog Addict had put together to celebrate their 1st birthday (you can still enter, its not too late!) and now I’ve found another great giveaway from Kreative in Kinder’s blog. Now I am not really one to promote these sort of things (it just so happens I found two neat ones back to back) but this one just seemed so awesome that I couldn’t resist! I… Read More