Over the past two weeks, I have been working with a second grade teacher to recreate a song with her students. Her students had been working on a unit in her class called "What does the shape say?" It was based off the song The Fox by Ylvis where students learned about shapes in books and crafts based on foxes. Her students began trying to change the words to the song, and she had asked me to help rewrite and record the song. During one pullout session, I worked with her students to rewrite the words. Over the following week, the class practiced the song during math time. Today, I recorded the audio of the song with the students, and placed it over a karaoke version of the song. It turned out excellent! I am now working to possibly record a video with her students. They are making props in class, and hopefully we will get to record in the next two weeks!
Be sure to listen to the audio below!
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Tonight was the culmination of my collaborative unit with second grade. Students came to PTA tonight dressed as historical figures to put on Gould's 4th Annual Night at the Museum! Over the past month, I worked with second grade teachers to help their students write speeches to use during the 4th edition of their yearly "wax" museum display. Students have worked on research skills, discussed how to find relevant information, as well as fair use and copyright. Using these skills, students wrote facts into a prewritten (by their teachers) speech framework. While I helped teach students information literacy skills, teachers focused on CCGPS with lessons on main idea and details, as well as standards on some of the famous figures on display at the PTA performance. The lessons and performance turned out to be a hit (just see some of the photos below)! The second grade teachers were very appreciative of the help and support from the media center. By helping them with the research skills, it provided them some extra, and much needed time, to focus on the CCGPS. The final product turned out wonderfully! Below I am posting the lesson plans for this unit, which include some additional reflections and insights into the lesson, along with some things I would do differently next time.
This week I attended a second grade, grade group meeting. The meeting was to set up for the Second Grade Parent Night. The second grade teachers were to present various information and expectations of second grade students during the school year. This included explaining the Scholastic Reading Inventory (SRI) and Math Academic Progress (MAP) requirements for promotion to third grade.
The second grade teachers had also asked for a representative from the media center to attend the meeting to go over Accelerated Reader (AR), Parent connect, Tumble Books, and Media Center resources with parents. My mentor prepared the information that needed to be delivered, and I stayed that night to help deliver the material to the second grade parents. |
Jason SmithJason Smith is the 3rd & 4th Grade Gifted Facilitator at Gould Elementary. Archives
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