Day 6! The second week!

Back to Jenna and Laura!

Lesson plan:

Objective: Learners will be able to create a collaborative class story given the WWW strategy and usnig three vocab words.

Criteria for Sucess (Students)

- Match vocab on board

- Write 10 sentences usnig vocab words in coorperative learning groups.

- Review WWW

- Write final class story

- Read "Yeh-Shen"

Criteria for Success (Teachers)

- Regroup students in coorperative learning groups

- Motivate by putting exceptional studetn work on the board

- Model by writnig class story with WWW on board

Assessmnt

Pre: Vocab matching

Formative: question WWW while writing class story

Summative: 10 sentences using vocab worsd

Closure

Read "Yeh Shen" while thinking about WWW

Reflection:

Today the professors switched schools so LaJerne came to our school. In general, the day went really well. The class listened really well and behaved like angels. We started the day with a review game, which Jenna did outside the classroom so Laura could rearrange all the desks. In our school, the desks use to be arranged by ability level but we decided to mix the groups so they could help each other and learn from each other because each excel with a different skill.

After rearranging (which the learners hated) we wrote sentenes. We were pleasantly surprised with how well the students did with this activity and wrote the sentences on the board because they were all so good. This demonstarted to us the mastery of the 10 vocab words and meant we could finally move on to the next story.

Next, we wrote a story as a class. We have done this once before but this time we had them use some of the vocab words. We were once again, amazed by our students' creativity and loved their story about a dog name Bamjogile, a wizard, and the magic bone.

Then at tea time, we were specifically advised to focus more of our attention on the visual learner. This meant incorprating our objectives into our classroom by placing them on the board as well as writing down all directions on the board. We thought we were doing so well that this criticism was hard to take, but we can see now that it really did have an impact in our classroom and we are thankful for it.

We ended the day by finishing our story and having them copy it into their portfolios. This way they can keep it forever!

...Overall, we are still impressed every single day...we love our students...we still aren't leaving. (DON'T MAKE US PLEASEEEEE!)

Peace, Love & Lion cubs

Jenna Way and Laura