Mrs. Turner Teaches

You all did a great job presenting tonight! All of your lesson plans made me want to go back and change some things on mine before I am finished with them all. Rebekah: I loved the title of your lesson plan. It was so well thought out and if I was a sub I would know EXACTLY what to do. Your attention to detail is awesome and going to be so helpful when you have a class of your own. What a fun lesson to eat S'mores! Karen: While I didn't hear you the best (darn highway noise!) I really liked the idea of using a popular song for a lesson on figurative language. Using Katy Perry is a plus in my book because I love her. Marley: I love your lesson on cloud formation and the water cycle. High pressure=Happy Weather is something that I will have to remember for myself! Angela: Dot to Dot worksheets are so much fun! We use those now with my early childhood SPED students who are pre-kinders. Many of them have OT so fine motor (like writing with a pencil) is so hard. We practic...

Jacob: I liked your lesson on figurative language. The handout is great and honestly I had fun doing it myself! I love that you will have them have a discussion at the end of the lesson. It helps those students who may have not understood the differences between figurative language. It also gets students thinking of different ideas than what they may have interpreted it.  Allison: I liked your idea of retelling the story with pictures. I like how you let the students know what you did last time so they can recall and use that information to help with the picture retelling. I would be able to modify this lesson for my early childhood SPED students very easily.  Miranda: What a fun lesson for Math! I have always been afraid of anything that has to do with math and this lesson would be fun. I like how you applied counting coins to real life experience for the students. I love that you used food because everyone eats. Scott: I liked your lesson on history. I am as...

This week we listened to lesson plans. I, along with four other classmates presented a lesson on our unit. The first lesson I heard about was Andrew's lesson for 7th grade History. I really like history (although I didn't when I was in school!) and I enjoyed learning about this lesson. Reading a letter to a person of the past and then writing one is such a great idea. There are so many cool things you could talk about and ask about. I was even picturing who I would write to. This is a great lesson, Andrew! Jessica spoke about 2nd grade math. I was and am still horrible at Math but this sounds like a fun activity. The way that you set up continuously going over place values and counting days throughout the year will really get them to understand this concept. I wish I would have had this lesson when I was in school. Ali's lesson was about Recycling.  It was great how you had a song because after last night I realized how much songs are important in lessons. Plus at t...