Fourth Graders and Fieldwork

Monday, June 7, 2010
Elizabeth Learning Center
7:30 am to 2:30 pm (cumulative hours 39.5 )
CCTC Standards 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20

I worked a lot on the three summer reading lists (K-2, 3-5, 6-8) today. I will present them to the community representatives Tuesday or Wednesday along with literacy tips for parents. I did not just want to copy some other list, and spent quite a bit time on this. I want it to look attractive for the parents and that takes time on the computer.

While looking for books for my genre lesson I found a couple more books in the elementary section that would be more appropriate in secondary. Ken said this is part of collection development/refinement.

I selected books for the second part of my genre lesson with Ms. Carillo's 4th grade class. The lesson went really well and I got positive feedback from Ken. He asked for all my handouts to use in his lessons!

I continued my read-aloud in Ms. Sheikh's special ed. class for about 40 minutes.

I did a book talk for a third grade class. I used three versions of the Cinderella story, comparing and contrasting them with the traditional version everyone knows. It was a hit. All the kids wanted to check out Cinderella tales from around the world.

I helped students find more versions of the Cinderella folktale to check out, and checked books out for a little while.

I found out I am going to fill in for Mr. Completo for a few hours on Wednesday!