Directional Drawing
In reading, we were reading a book called Pearl and Wagner. In the book, the friends make a robot for a science fair. An activity that I had the students do was to participate in a robot directional drawing. The students were giving a blank white piece of paper. This activity required students to listen carefully to the directions I was giving them. At first, the students were confused at what I was having them do. I told them to be patient and continue to listen to the directions. When they started drawing more they started to understand what they were drawing. This was a great activity to help students with listening directions.
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Assembly Line
During a social studies activity, the students were learning about assembly lines in factories to help make goods. The students were put into four groups. They were assigned one task to make a game piece. One student had to cut, two students had to color certain parts of the game piece, the fourth student had to put paper clips on and the last students had to check over the work to make sure it was done correctly. This activity allowed students to experience the fast pace work that factory workers do and what all goes into making products. This was a great learning exercise.
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Farmer McNugget
For a writing activity, we read the story Twas the Night Before Thanksgiving. The story was about students who went to visit a turkey farm. The farmer was going to kill the turkeys but the students snuck the turkeys out of the farm to save them. After reading the story we did a KWL chart about turkeys. The students came up with what they already knew and what they wanted to learn. From that, we researched why turkeys should be saved. We came up with lots of information on why turkeys can be useful. The students filled out a graphic organizer on three reasons Farmer McNugget should save the turkeys using the information we found. Once the students filled out their graphic organizer they wrote a letter to farmer McNugget and included why he should save the turkeys. The steps in writing this letter helped students organize their thoughts. The tools learned in this lesson can be used in their writing in the future.
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SAM/SRI
SAM (Students Achievement Manager) is an online tool for teachers to get reports and results on how students are doing in reading and in math. Teachers can monitor how students are doing according to skill and get resources to differentiate instruction. Students use SRI (Scholastic Reading Inventory) to take the tests for the teachers to get results in SAM. In our class, we would do weekly selection tests from our reading unit. There are a variety of multiple choice questions that students go over and choose the best results. The results from the selection tests go right into SAM and teachers can access their information from their tests. Teachers are able to see how the entire class did and if needed, can plan for further discussion or differentiation.
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