My time at Mike Mountain Horse Elementary: Grade 3
Note-able Projects
Fairy Tales
In Language Arts, my grade 3 students wrote fractured fairy tales to be donated to the school library. We spent our time in class deconstructing fairy tales, picking out our favorites, and writing our own fractured fairy tales. The students even included producing a hard covered version of their story as well as a short dramatic reading of the tale. It was a truly magical experience to hear the genuine ideas from these grade 3's.
Cafe Project
I believe it's important in school to make lessons applicable to real life scenarios. This cafe project enables students to host a cafe in our classroom and "sell" healthy snacks and lunches for fake "school dollars". Having students counting money and making change builds on the moneysense portion of the mathematics curriculum and makes the idea of money very real and exciting for students.
Major Assessments
Reading is extremely important to me as a teacher. I believe keeping up with our students reading abilities is one key to helping them be successful in the classroom. I've become comfortable with the Fountas & Pinnell reading assessment system and find it easy to explain to students and parents, and easy to use for assessment purposes.
Project based learning is my comfort zone as a drama major. I find I'm able to get a better feeling of students comfort with a subject or outcome via demonstrations, projects, and kinesthetic activities. One of my personal favourites in mathematics was teaching skip counting via a very large number line on the floor. Students partner up, one partner on the number line and one at the end with a whiteboard. The whiteboard student would write a multiplication question on the board, and the number line student would skip jump (literally) to figure out the answer. Students LOVED this activity and I found that their understanding grew so much from this one day.
Project based learning is my comfort zone as a drama major. I find I'm able to get a better feeling of students comfort with a subject or outcome via demonstrations, projects, and kinesthetic activities. One of my personal favourites in mathematics was teaching skip counting via a very large number line on the floor. Students partner up, one partner on the number line and one at the end with a whiteboard. The whiteboard student would write a multiplication question on the board, and the number line student would skip jump (literally) to figure out the answer. Students LOVED this activity and I found that their understanding grew so much from this one day.
Extra Curricular
I was very lucky to have the opportunities that I had at Mike Mountain Horse. I was able to volunteer for the following projects;
-Coaching grade 5 basketball
-Remembrance Day Dramatization
-Music Video Grade 4 Project
-Christmas Concert
-Spirit Committee & Fine Arts Committee
-Coaching grade 5 basketball
-Remembrance Day Dramatization
-Music Video Grade 4 Project
-Christmas Concert
-Spirit Committee & Fine Arts Committee