Colavito McKie Marcia Wright, Instructor Educ.

422: Teaching Math to Children February 10, 2014 Activity Log Date 2/10/2014 Time 9:40a.m.-1:40p.m. Purpose of Visit Initial Classroom Observation Description of Visit During my initial visit to Brookdale Elementary School, I observed my mentor teachers classroom. While observing the classroom, I looked for methods of instruction, student engagement, and at the overall physical classroom environment. While visiting Brookdale today, I observed Ms. Smiths ELA classroom, conferenced with Ms. Smith to inform her of my role in her class as a level 3 practitioner, and interacted with students in an attempt to get to know them. While visiting Brookdale today, I observed both of Mrs. Wallaces classes (1st period and 2nd period), spoke with her about the expected outcome of this semester as far as the purpose of me being in her classroom, and reviewed the lesson concepts in math and science for third grade. While visiting Brookdale today, I had the opportunity

2/24/2014

8:00a.m.-1:00p.m.

English/ Language Arts classroom observation

2/26/2014

9:15a.m.-2:15p.m.

Math classroom observation

3/3/2014

9:30a.m.-1:45p.m.

English/ Language Arts classroom

observation

3/5/2014

11:00a.m.-1:30p.m.

Classroom Observation/ CoTeach lesson

3/10/2014

10:00a.m.-2:00p.m.

English/ Language Arts classroom observation

3/12/2014

9:30a.m.-2:30p.m.

Math classroom observation

to observe both of Ms. Smiths classes learning about main ideas and supporting details. During the lesson, students engaged in choral reading while reading texts at their desks or on the Starboard, later instructed to find main ideas and supporting details independently, and used their information to paraphrase what was said in the text aloud. While at Brookdale today, I had the opportunity to coteach a math lesson on angles and a science lesson on solids, liquids, and gases with Mrs. Wallace. Later, I interview the assistant principal. During our session, the assistant principal shared information on her idea of instruction in the classroom, interpretation and use of data, her concept on effective teaching and learning, and learning outcomes and assessment. While at Brookdale today, I observed Ms. Smiths E/LA lesson focusing on combining short sentences to make compound sentences. During the lesson, one of the students experienced some difficulty in understanding how to combine shorter sentences to express a complete thought. Ms. Smith asked me to help the student, by providing individualized instruction. While at Brookdale, I cotaught a math lesson with

3/13/2014

10:25a.m.-2:25p.m.

English/ Language Arts classroom observation

Mrs. Wallace featuring rounding whole numbers to the nearest 10, 100, or 1,000. Mrs. Wallace encouraged me to start the lesson off with a Bell Ringer activity. The activity was issued by the schools administration for students to work on at the start of class. Mrs. Wallace informed me that the schools Bell Ringer activities are all grade-level appropriate and issued to students daily. The slide read: 3rd Grade Math (at the top); the standard (3.2-4: Apply procedures to round any whole # to the nearest 10, 100, or 1,000); the directions (Which of the following would give the best estimate of 62 + 89?); and four answer choices (A: 60+80; B: 60+90; C: 70+80; and D: 70+90). While at Brookdale today, I co-taught a lesson with Ms. Smith featuring writing. We provided students with a writing prompt entitled What would you do if you won one million dollars? Write a composition describing what you would do with the money. Be sure to explain in detail. During this particular lesson, Ms. Smith worked with one group of students in the front of the classroom and I worked with another group of students in the back of the classroom. While working with students, Ms. Smiths

3/17/2014

9:00a.m.-1:30p.m.

Classroom observation/ co-teach math lesson

3/24/2014

9:30a.m.-1:30p.m.

Classroom observation/ co-teach math and science lesson

3/26/2014

11:00a.m.-1:00p.m.

Video record E/LA lesson.

goal was for us to encourage students develop ideas about the topic and to connect the ideas to writing. While at Brookdale, I cotaught a lesson with Mrs. Wallace featuring area. During the lesson, students were provided with the formula for area (l x w = area) by Mrs. Wallace and were instructed to describe the difference between perimeter and area. In my opinion, students provided excellent responses. Later, students were given various situations (word problems) and asked to determine the area, using the figures represented in the word problems. While at Brookdale today, I co-taught both a math and science lesson with Mrs. Wallace. The math lesson featured time and the science lesson was on the three states of matter. The math lesson provided students with various scenarios that featured time. The level of intensity increased as students progressed and accomplished the skill necessary to arrive at an answer for the word problem. In science, we classified everyday objects into three states of matter (solid, liquids, and gases). While at Brookdale today, I record my E/LA lesson. My E/LA lesson featured main

3/31/2014

7:30a.m.-1:45p.m.

Video record math lesson one.

4/2/2014

8:00a.m.-2:00p.m.

Video record social studies lesson and math lesson two.

ideas and supporting details. I found it important to include a main idea rap into the lesson, teachermade anchor charts, and the use of technology (during the modeling and guided practice phases). While at Brookdale, I recorded my math lesson featuring perimeter. In preparation for the lesson, I issued supply bags to students that contained all of the materials needed to engage in the activity. The lesson also featured the story Perimeter, Area, and Volume: A Monster Book of Dimensions. After reading the story, I invited students to engage in exploration by exploring the contents in their supply bags. During the time of exploration, I observed students making rays, lines, line segments, and various angles. Later, I informed students that we would use the contents in the supply bag to create a house. After showing a replica of my house, students began to construct their version. While at Brookdale, I recorded my social studies lesson that featured the significance H.L. Hunley submarine in the Civil War. The lesson included a teacher-made replica of the H. L. Hunley (designed by yours truly), an interactive story entitled The Story of the H. L. Hunley and

4/7/2014

7:30a.m.-2:00p.m.

Video record science lesson.

4/9/2014

7:30a.m.-2:00p.m.

Teach hands-on science lesson.

4/10/2014

11:00a.m.-2:00p.m.

Conclude spring semester field experience.

Queenies Coin, and a tourists activity (assessing student knowledge about the H. L. Hunley). Later, I continued my math lesson featuring perimeter. Students continued to use their geometric homes to determine the perimeter around their houses, given the length and the width of one side of a given object. Off record, I constructed a house to use as a visual for the lesson and provided students with various word problems (featuring their peers) associated with finding the perimeter of the house, in different situations. While at Brookdale, I recorded my science lesson that featured Landforms and Ocean Features. The lesson included the use of a Prezi presentation, arts and craft material (for illustrations), and teachermade anchor charts (with essential information students need to know, concluding the lesson). While at Brookdale, I taught a hands-on science lesson that was to be observed by my Educ. 423: Teaching Science to Children instructor, Mrs. McClary. Just so happen, Dr. Stokes, principal of Brookdale Elementary School, sat in on the lesson, too! While at Brookdale, I interacted with both classes and obtained signatures and

evaluations from both of my mentor teachers.