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Week 4: Harriet Tubman and History

By : AnnieAKiwi
           On Tuesday (January 27, 2015), I taught about Harriet Tubman in social studies. I wrote important vocabulary on the easel board, these words included Harriet Tubman, courage, Underground Railroad, and slavery. I did this as part of my FEAP goal, which is 2h: Adapts the learning environment to accommodate the differing needs and diversity of studentsThe first thing I did was state the purpose to the students. The purpose of this lesson was to identify which character ideal and principle Harriet Tubman showed. I opened up the lesson by asking them what it means to be courageous or to have courage. I had them pair-and-share about what they think it means to be courageous or to have courage. I gave them about a minute or so. Most of them were not familiar with the term so I said it means bravery or to be brave. I showed them the picture of Harriet Tubman that is in their social studies book.
I began to read the small paragraph provided in the workbook. I paused when I came across the word slavery and asked if they remember what that term meant. They were able to tell me since I taught it to them in my previous lesson of Abraham Lincoln. I continued to read until the end, which ended with the word courage. I asked them if they have ever done something courageous. I provided them with an example of me being courageous. I told them that I took courage and stood in front of my entire high school to sing. I had them turn to their partners once more to share their stories. Then I had them share out their own stories about being courageous, which was my closure due to the fact that I ran out of time.

Photo credit to Wikimedia Commons.
On Friday (January 30, 2015), I gathered the students at the carpet with their social studies book and pencils. I wrote two vocabulary terms on the easel board and a question from the workbook. The reason I’m writing the terms on the board is so my ELLs are able to see the word. The two vocabulary terms were history and fact. I told them the purpose of today’s lesson was to understand what history is and what it tells about people and events. I introduced the lesson by defining history. The two pages I had them turn to in the workbook contained various pictures, which includes Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, Harriet Tubman, President Eisenhower, the Pilgrims, and Marjory Stoneman Douglas. I instructed them to circle the pictures they are familiar with. Then, I had them pair-and-share what they circled. I asked for volunteers to share out the people that they circled. I had them follow along with their fingers as I read both paragraphs in the workbook. I asked once again what history meant and several raised their hands. I picked one boy and he defined the word, then I asked him how he knew. He was able to tell me that he got the definition from the first paragraph. I took that opportunity to tell them that he used text evidence to tell me what history meant. The last thing I did was tell them about what the term facts meant. Then I read them the question I wrote on the easel board, “Circle the one that is a fact. A. You are in first grade or B. All grades are in the same classroom.” One volunteer came up to circle a. I asked why she circled A and to define fact. She was able to define the term and say that A was indeed a fact because it was true.
Standards:
SS.1.A.2.4: Identify people from the past who have shown character ideals and principles.

SS.1.A.2.1: Understand history tells the story of people and events of other times and places.

Week 3

By : AnnieAKiwi
This week, I pulled my phonics groups to work with them on their beginning, middle, and ending sounds. I have two groups that consists of three students. They are grouped according to their DRA levels so I have decided that I want to administer the spelling inventory on them. The spelling inventory from Words Their Way will help me determine who is at the emergent, letter name-alphabetic, within word pattern, or syllables and affixes spelling stage. I will be able to re-group them once I get the results. So far I tested four students, the fourth one refused to cooperate with me. My ELL student that speaks only Spanish was taking the spelling test, but then stopped because he didn’t know how to spell. I told him that it wasn’t for a test, it was for me to know what he needed help with, but he just shut down on me. I need to test two more students so I can re-group and have different activities according to stages. I am still setting up goals for the My Profession video.

Week 2: Gallery Walk

By : AnnieAKiwi
This week I began teaching Social Studies again. I created my own gallery walk that I took from my Social Studies course. I printed out three images of events that occurred while Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was still alive. Before I began the lesson, I taped two of the images in the back of the room and set up sticky notes. I did not state the purpose at the beginning of the lesson. I displayed the picture I was going to model on the ELMO. Then I asked them what they saw in the picture. I picked on a few of the students and made a caption according to their answers. I gave out instructions and called out two tables at a time to walk over the back. Once everyone was at the back of the room, I gave them an opportunity to choose which picture they wanted to see.

Photo credit to Wikipedia.


After, they finished choosing, I instructed them to get a stinky note from the board and head back to their desks. Almost all the students were starting their captions with “I see.” So, I had to refresh their memories on what captions were and how it started. I walked around the room and picked two students to share their captions with the class. I used these two students as examples on how the captions should look like. Then, I had them all come up and stick their sticky notes under the picture they chose. By the end of the lesson, I realized that the students did not really get anything out of the first day of the gallery walk. The gallery walk will be for two days.

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