Saturday, November 15, 2014
On Thursday, I began to
teach Social Studies in the morning. The first thing I did was tell them to
come to the carpet. One of my mistakes was I did not instruct them to clean up
first and then come to the carpet. All the students came to the carpet quietly and
sat down. The first thing I did was pull out a bag with two items that I
brought from my house. The bag contained items that tell something about me. I
asked for one volunteer to come up and pull out one of the items. I asked the
class what the object might tell them about me. The first item was a stuffed
panda, which indicated that I like pandas. One of the students mentioned this
and I nodded. Then I explained to them that objects can tell us a lot about
history. I asked the class what history means to them and one them told me that
it was “something that happened a long time ago.” I told them that history is
the story of people and events from other times and places.
Photo credit to Wikipedia.
The next thing I did was introduced them to six different
vocabularies, which were history, fact, holiday, culture, character, and
fiction. I held a flash card up with the word history on it. I asked them to tell me what they thought each
vocabulary was and then I provided the definition. When I came to the word holiday, I asked them what holidays we
celebrate this month. They were only able to tell me Thanksgiving because my CT
has been telling them about it. After I completed the mini lesson, I proceeded
to read Junie B. Jones to them. I began to read chapter one using expressive
reading. I read in different voices so the children would enjoy the book more.
I read the boy’s voice in a deeper tone and they seem to have enjoyed it. They
were disappointed when I finished chapter one.
