Student Teaching

First Two Weeks of Student Teaching

These past three weeks have been very busy and exciting! I started Student Teaching in Mrs. Ekart's Third Grade class at Lee Elementary. I am so lucky to have Mrs. Ekart as a cooperative teacher. She is a great role model and very supportive. Everyone has been so friendly and helpful at Lee and I'm really looking forward to this semester.
These first two weeks, we have been busy getting to know the students and going over rules of the classroom and school. A teacher that Mrs. Ekart collaborates with went to a workshop over Kagan Cooperative Learning and has been introducing us to it. There activities are all about engagement and key into teambuilding. I plan on using these resources in my future classroom! 

The students drew a self portrait and wrote about themselves. It was a great first sample of their writing and it was great to be able to put their work up in our classroom.

This is the front of a folded piece of paper. The students answered questions about themselves and when you lifted it up, there was a picture of them. Fun way to find out the students interests.

The room looks amazing with all of the students' work hanging up.

She is so artistic.

This is the students' "Look Back At Summer." They wrote about something fun they did this summer and illustrated them in inside the sunglasses.

We did a lot with Arthur the second week of school. The students were able to learn how to draw him. They were really good!

This was one of the Kagan teambuilding activities. The students are in groups of four. Two students get a glue stick and two students get a crayon. Every student two pieces of paper of their color. The students make a clown without touching any materials but their own. They also can't use scissors. They work together to come up with a plan then work together to make a clown.

Our "Guess Who" bulletin board outside of the classroom.

Our "Math About Me" activities showing that math is all around them every day.

The finished clowns. The groups got to name their clown. The students were really creative and had a lot of fun!

We got the classroom ready for Parent Teacher conferences by tracing all of the students and letting them color them like themselves. We taped them to their seats with a ruler. This was very time consuming but turned out really cute. It was fun seeing the parents try to find their kids based on how they colored themselves.