Lesson Plan Review

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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 the end you really had them think of different ways they can reduce and recycle. I think that this lesson can and will be carried over into the children's home lives as well.

Angela had a lesson on Mixed media and visual art using pencils. I LOVED my art class when I was in elementary school and still love art (I am not a fantastic drawer or do I know the true techniques but I still think its cool). I think you can really have some kids blossom out of this and showing the contrast of light, medium and dark is a great way to have them use their creativity.

I enjoyed listening to everyone's lesson and think you all are in the right directions. I love seeing how different we all are, and how we all have different styles of teaching.

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  1. LifeCoachandArtwAngela.blogspot.comNovember 2, 2018 at 9:38 PM

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    1. LifeCoachandArtwAngela.blogspot.comNovember 2, 2018 at 9:57 PM

      Kudos to our class, we have great future Teachers
      Mrs. Turner all the Lesson Plans were awesome!

      Tiffany loved your Weather Journal great teaching tool

      Andrew's lesson plans for History are very detailed and the idea of writing letters is awesome!


      Jessica's lesson plan on Place Value allowed me to understand math in a different perspective!

      Ali love the links for recycling, this teaches us how important it is to save and recycle!

      Mrs. Turner I will be using art to do family therapy in Counseling, I'll be doing each grade level in Art.

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