Presenting my Lesson

This week I presented my lesson regarding the five senses to the class, and I have to say I was a bit nervous during my presentation. The technology that I incorporated into my lesson was clip-art from Microsoft word, audio (song), and a power point presentation. My overall goal during my presentation was to get everyone involved in the lesson, and showing my classmates that learning should be fun. Since, my lesson was based on a kindergarten standard, I wanted my classmates to understand how important it is to keep these young kids active, and learning. I handed everyone out a cookie that was used to teach the five senses; the cookie allows students to have an object to related the five senses too, and allows students to build on background knowledge. For every sense (hear, taste, touch, smell, and sight) students would use the cookie to relate each of the five senses. I was unable to present my anticipatory set, which was a song on the five senses, because I was unable to bring school items off campus (work).I was very nervous presenting and I hope I did a good job, I hope that the class understood my lesson, and how I would incorporate technology to create a more creative lesson.

Assessing Prior Knowledge

When I was creating my lesson plan, I was thinking how I can bring students prior knowledge and incorporate it into my lesson.The characteristics of the school or classroom that may affect students learning, may be the students lack of experience with technology or the lack of technology supplies (computers) that may be available at a school. The general and specific understandings of students differences that may affect learning are student's unique perfected learning style; each student has a learning method that works best for them, and it can be learning through visuals, songs, play, ect. Student';s differences that may also effect students learning, may also be students prior knowledge regarding the lesson; some students may already know their five senses and others may not know or understand what their five senses are (different experiences).

It's important to understand that every student in a classrooms comes to school with different experiences, skills, beliefs, and different ways of learning. How each student processes and integrates new information will affect how they remember, think, apply, and create new knowledge. One thing I have found from working with students is that every students is different, and the more you bring out students prior knowledge into lessons, the better they will understand the new information that is given to them. In order to asses what each child knows and understand, the educator should take the time to know her students, and learn about how each student learns best. When creating a lesson, the educator should think what form of instruction or assessment will help enhance students learning, and will provide them a the learning experiences they need. When creating my lesson, I thought about how I can bring prior knowledge into my lesson, and that is when I came up with the cookie idea. Every child has tasted, smelled, looked, and felt a cookie before, and by incorporating  a cookie as a manipulatives, it allows students to get a better idea of the five senses; many student's know how to use their five senses, but do not understand them individually or the fact that their are five.The general understanding of student's skill or prior learning that may affect learning, may be that every student knows and understand different things.

Some students may come to school with the knowledge of their five senses, and others will need extra guidance. Every student is different, and every student comes to school with different experiences and prior knowledge. During this lesson I wanted to incorporate students prior knowledge with new information to help guide them in their learning about their five senses. I hope this allows student's to think about what they already know and incorporate it into the lesson;this allow them to have a better understanding of the new information given to them. Prior knowledge is a great stepping stool for students, and teachers should use what students know, and use it to teach students bigger and better lessons that will enhance students learning.

Great Idea!

The previous post I had it written down on my notebook, because I was unable to create a blogger on my computer; I have the oldest computer in the world, and it doesn't allow me to do much. So, I have been writing my thoughts on paper, and saving them so when I was able to create a blog, I would be able to just type them all in. Well, I have to say that I'm liking being able to type things on a blog, instead of writing my reflections in my notebook.

Anyways, I'm straying from the topic I wanted to discuses. I finally came up with a great idea for my lesson plan!! I'm so excited. I decided to create a lesson on the five senses, and I will be using audio-song on the five senses, power point, and clip art from Microsoft word.  I've been working on this lesson plan all weekend, and I finally came up with a good way of integrating everything together. I'm happy to have it done, I've been working really hard on it, and thinking of what I can do and how technology can be added to it to make it better (interesting/ fun). I think its a good lesson plan for kindergarten students, because it gets them out of moving and learning though the five sense by using a cookie as a manipulative. Students are going to be able to use to cookie to look, smell, feel, hear, and taste the cookie. I thought it was a fun way for students to learn about the five senses. The hard part of creating the lesson plan is done, the only thing left is to present it to the classroom.

What lesson should I do for my lesson plan??

I have been thinking for days what lesson I want to present to the class, and how I can integrate technology into my lesson plan. At first, this task seemed so hard and I could not find any ideas of not only what lesson I wanted to teach, but what technology I would be able to use with kindergarten students. The one thing I always aim for in my lessons is that students have fun while they are learning. I think I decided to create a kindergarten lesson, because of all the creativity that working with younger students bring. However, I was unsure of what technology they would be able to use, and understand. Well, after days of thinking I finally came up with what lesson I'm going to teach and I'm so excited. I'm still in the process of coming up with different uses of technology that I can incorporate, but I at least I'm one set closer to creating my lesson plan. Hopefully, I can think of something great!