I was a guest blogger my last week at T. school. Here is what I posted:
Wow, I can’t believe it’s May and that I’m almost finished student teaching here in the T. library! The time just flew. I am going to miss the creativity and excitement of the students when I return to my public library job full time later this week. I have had so much fun sharing poetry and stories and working on special projects with the students during April and early May.
I was very excited to be here for National Poetry Month because I love poetry and language. The students amazed me with their own work. We created acrostics in first grade, haikus in second, and alphabet books in kindergarten. Shel Silverstein's poetry and the book Dogku by Andrew Clements were particular favorites. Students practiced writing rhyming couplets in first grade. For Power Up, second graders spent several days examining different types of poems, exploring websites, reciting poems, and now writing and illustrating their own poems for a VoiceThread project.
First graders had fun illustrating their own bad case of the stripes after reading David Shannon’s Bad Case of Stripes, and second graders wrote about terrible, horrible days after hearing Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst. A short SMARTboard lesson that I designed accompanied Stripes.
Last week we read lots of Chinese fairy tales and stories in honor of All School Study Day on Monday when the whole school learned about China. Dragons were prominent in the stories, and assembling a huge dragon was a school-wide project.
Today, the second graders will meet the Lincolnwood mayor who will be here in the library. It’s been a very busy and exciting time for me here at T; thank you to Ms. T for extending this opportunity to me, and thank you to the students for being part of my wonderful student teaching experience. I will miss you!
