Growing up I remember experiencing "Career Day." Today, it is known as "The Great American Teach-In." Essentially, this is a day where people from the community come into elementary school classrooms nationwide to talk about what they do for a living and how children can grow up to be that profession. Yesterday we learned about an entrepreneur , a lineman who works for TECO, a social worker, USF medical students, and a female racAs a teacher, I learned that it is beneficial to give students a foldable, or some sort of graphic organizer to give them the tools to take notes and record takeaways of their experience during the presentations. e car driver. It was a great day to get my students thinking of what they want to do when they grow up.
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I taught my first stEM lesson! Check it out under my STEM page. :) |
Junior Achievement of Tampa-Bay, | This week in 5th we had our first field trip of the year! It was to Junior Achievement's Biztown. JA Biztown is a town where 5th graders have a job for the whole day. I really like this type of field trip because my students had a purpose and specific task. They learned how to create and use a bank account, manage time, and how a town is only successful as a community. Before the children arrived, Melanie and I became trained volunteers for JA Biztown. After training we were assigned to a company to facilitate students working there. It was a great experience! |
This past week I was lucky to be able to sit in on caretaker-teacher conferences with my CT. The first one was with a male student who is on-level with reading, writing, science, and social studies but is at risk of being below level for math. For his behavior, he has a hard time focusing and gets in trouble when he is seeking attention from his peers. As we talked to his mother she denied his behavior problems but did agree to work with us about helping him out with math! My CT had online resources for her to learn about our new math Florida standards (MAFS) and connections to our textbook's workbook for extra practice. After, this conference we reflected we need to take more anecdotal notes with his behavior to show more evidence with parents/administrators. We had his agenda with notes home (signed by mom) about his daily behavior. That is what surprised me how she seemed so surprised that it couldn't have been true, but we had the days signed off? It was a good experience for me to learn how to be patient and always have multiple evidence when making claims! Next, we met with student who is just learning English. His parents speak Spanish. We had to ask a staff member to translate for us. This was so cool! I have never had an experience with an ELL student until this year. He just moved here last month from El Salvador and has improved so much! Reading at a 4th grade level and is solving math problems correctly in class, just in a visually different way. The problem for math is that he is below level because our summative assessments are all word problems, which cannot be translated for him. His father wanted to see what we could do to help with math and my CT had printed out the Spanish teacher's edition of the next chapter we were working on so his family could help him at home! I am excited to track his progress in math and see how the Spanish versions help! I am very glad to be able to be so involved with my students and their caretakers by being able to attend conferences in 5th grade and last year in 2nd. I have learned proper communication and what to bring to all meetings. My wish for my classroom is to always be connected with my students families. I believe we will work better together for maximum student achievement!
-Miss Honey
-Miss Honey
This year my school decided to be festive for Halloween and encourage classes to compete in a school-wide storybook pumpkin challenge! Amazingly, MY 5th grade class took the lead in the vote for the best intermediate pumpkin! Rainbow Fish stole hearts with his rainbow scale stickers that we placed for children to take with them and wear throughout the day. For winning the storybook pumpkin challenge, my class won a SMORES PARTY! Feel free to explore the pictures from the challenge!