Final Post

The lesson on Jimmy Lee Did it, was a great turn out for out first experience teaching with the role playing cards. My partner and I focused on the objective and the assessment being compatible. Then we made sure the procedure was clear. We also focused on who would be doing what in the lesson.
The objective of the lesson was to have students be able to recognize rhyming words by matching pairs of rhyming words. The assessment measure that was given was through a rubric.
The lesson plan for the most part was executed how we planned because we got to every part of the lesson, though there were a few curve balls with the behaviors that were presented.
The most important thing that was taught was the ability to recognize rhyming words. Overall I was pleased the way the lesson turned out because we got to every part of the lesson and though there were behaviors, we still managed to get things done. The only thing that I would do differently would be to have a no tolerance policy in the classroom with behavior.
My partner and I did not use the podcast in the lesson. We were the first to go so with all the anxiety we felt in the preparation, we forgot. But since we read the book twice during our lesson, one of those readings could have been replaced with the podcast. I really enjoyed how podcasting was used in other lessons, so I would definatley use it in my future classroom. It's something out of the ordinary so it really draws the attention of the students.

I really enjoyed participating in the other lesson plans in the classroom. Overall the lessons were full of great ideas. The only thing that was a major problem was the behavior of the class. It was hard to see what the objective of some of the lessons were because it was hard to keep students focused and the noise level down.
One I learned during these lessons, was to always be firm with students so that behavior isn't too much of a problem, and if there still is behavior a teacher has to be very patient with the students.

Lesson Plan set-up

After Julia and I decided that we were going to do our objective on rhyming words, we began to look for lesson plans that could help us. There weren't any lesson plans specifically for Jimmy Lee Did It, but we found a lot of other sites that gave you general ideas for a lesson plan based on rhyming. We re feeling a lot more confident about the lesson now. We started coming of with activities to do with the class through out the lesson. We are also trying to come up with a perfect assessment for the objective. We are either going to have a rubric for the worksheet we hand out to the class, or an answer key for the teacher to go with the worksheet.
We're looking at all the possibilities. We are meeting up next tuesday to bring the whole lesson together and practice presenting it all to the class.

Lesson Plan

Today we were given the option to do our lesson plan together with our partners. Julia and I decided to take the offer so that way we could have a good start on the lesson plans we will be doing through out the semester. We figured it would serve as good practice and we could get a feel for how it would be. I am a bit nervous because we still don't know what we want our objective to be. It's a mystery book but we don't know how we're going to incorporate that into an educational lesson.
Though at the same time I am a bit excited to get up in front of the class and pretend to be a teacher. :)

Jimmy Lee Did It-- Mission Complete

The Podcasting was a success. Though we had a few bumps in the road in the beginning because our first microphone wasn't working. We realized this after we thought we recorded the story, which we ran through with no mistakes, so we had to switch computers. When we recorded the second time the noise in the classroom was too loud so we had to wait and record it again a third time. Though we ended up having to record our fourth and final time because we couldn't stop laughing the third time. Over all it was a success and we had loads of fun recording.
We ran through it with the book and it sounded great. I know that if we were to present this to a class, the students would love it.
Check out the link of the right side of my blog to hear the story!!

Jimmy Lee Did it!

Today will be recording the actualy story. We have practiced the rythm that the books is read so this will hopefully be a breeze, and we won't have to keep rerecording. I'm excited to see the turn out of our final result. It's great to imagine a group of students listening to the postcast when we hear it. The title of our story is Jimmy Lee Did it. It's a mystery story so we will try to sound myterious as we read. We decided to take turns reading each page.

It was a success!

So we finished recording the questions and it went well. We only had to redo it once. We also added a picture to go with the questions. Overall it was a successful class period.Click on the link below if you want to hear what we did:
http://aandj.podomatic.com/entry/2009-09-22T07_37_58-07_00

Enjoy!

Pre-Poscasting

Today we are recording the questions for our story Jimmy Lee Did It. We are unable to record the story because we forgot the book, but we are going to make the best of our time and do everything else that needs to be done, so next time we are able to record the story. We will have more time to practice reading the book for next time to be able to record it right away.
For today we decided to come up with questions to ask about the book.