Yesterday was our first snow day of the year! It was nice to sleep in and have extra time to get planning done, however, it absolutely messes up your plans for the week. As a student, snow days were great. As a teacher, snow days are not as great. Some subjects that are only once a week are missed completely. Other subjects that are taught in a five day routine are messed up for entire rest of the week. It's all about being flexible though. That is what I learned from our first snow day. There is no point in stressing out about the missed days because you are not going to get that time back (well you will, but at a later date in the school year and that just isn't the same). My co-op showed me how she altered the weeks plans, and specifically today's plans to make up for yesterday's missed work. Yesterday I was suppose to begin my new science unit. Science is only taught once a week in this classroom, on Tuesdays. I was relieved when I got the word from my co-op that she decided to move my lesson to the next day and not the next week. Which brings me to today, and the second part of my post, my science lesson.
Our new unit in first grade is animal life cycles. We began with butterflies. Looking back, if this was my own class, and I wasn't assigned specific topics to teach, I would have given a pre-assessment on the entire unit. The class was very knowledgeable on the butterfly life cycle from the get-go. I had an idea that this might be the case and that is why I decided to begin with butterflies. I figured that it is fairly simple and would be a good starting point before delving into more in depth life cycles. This lesson also happened to be my first informal student teaching observation from my student teaching supervisor. It was great to get some feedback after my lesson and I was pleased with the compliments and suggestions I got. I attached a picture of an example of student work from the lesson. Overall, I think everything went well and I'm looking forward to my Social Studies lesson tomorrow.
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