Internship+Reflection+February+2010

Technology Standard III- Use technology to support learner-centered strategies that address the diverse needs of students. Technology Standard IV- Apply technology in assessing student learning of subject matter using a variety of assessment techniques. || 2 || Technology Standard II-Plan strategies to manage student learning in a technology-enhanced environment. Technology Standard IV- Apply technology in assessing student learning of subject matter using a variety of assessment techniques. || 2 || Technology Standard I - Demonstrate knowledge, skills and understanding of concepts related to technology. Technology Standard V - Apply technology to increase productivity; use technology to communicate and collaborate with peers, parents and the larger community in order to nuture student learning. || 2 || Technology Standard - VI - Apply technology resources to enable and empower learners with dverse backgrounds, charachteristics, and abilities. Technology Standard V - Apply technology to increase productivity. || 2 || Technology Standard III- Manage student learning activities in a technology-enhanced environment. Technology Standard V - Apply technology to increase productivity. || 2 ||
 * ** Date: February 2010 Total Internship hours at the start of the month: ** || 24 ||
 * ** Week ** || **Functions** ||  || **Hrs** ||
 * **1** || ** Week’s Activities ** || Created and taught lesson for Information Fluency to reinforce Water Cycle lesson taught previously.
 * ^  || ** Communication with Supervisor ** || Supervisor instructed that the lesson was well written and had technology integrated into it. ||^   ||
 * **2** || ** Week’s Activities ** || Created and taught lesson using Kidspiration about 5 senses.
 * ^  || ** Communication with Supervisor ** || Supervisor complemented lesson plan about 5 senses. He stated it was a great way to get students motivated and make concept more concrete. ||^   ||
 * **3** || ** Week’s Activities ** || Created 4 classroom Newsletters for Technology Competencies
 * ^  || ** Communication with Supervisor ** || Supervisor thought that it was a great idea to get competencies rolling. ||^   ||
 * **4** || ** Week’s Activities ** || Set up class and prepared lesson for Riverdeep exploration. Assigned Money as activity for the week.
 * ^  || ** Communication with Supervisor ** || Supervisor was not aware of this lesson. He recommends using this website and the website has been purchased by our district for math reinforcement. ||^   ||
 * **5** || ** Week’s Activities ** || Created Photo story for PTA program. (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle)
 * ^  || ** Communication with Supervisor ** || Thought it was a great way for parents to see students in pictures after PTA program. Said it could be a bit shorter for attention span issues. ||^   ||
 * ** Hours worked this month: ** || 10 ||
 * ** Total internship hours to date including this month: ** || 34 ||

Water Cycle Lesson Wow! Kids love learning about the water cycle! It seems like so much of the water cycle is common sense. Students have been watching water evaporate since they were small. Students were required in this lesson to create a photostory from a raindrops point of view about the water cycle. Students really enjoyed getting to put humor into this lesson. They worked hard getting some of their personality to shine through. I feel this lesson was a very effective way to make the Water Cycle come to life!

Kidspiration and the 5 senses In the younger grades, students love learning about the 5 senses. They enjoyed getting to click and drag their pictures onto the semantic map. Labeling their pictures helped with vocabulary and integrated a bit of Writing in with the Science lesson. The lesson was fun to teach and really fun to watch. Kidspiration is something I have never done before so I learned right along with my students which was a neat expeirence for me!

Classroom newsletters Utilitzing what I had learned in Digital Graphics and in the Publisher software, creating newsletters was a breeze. The four newsletters I created entailed class updates on students progress, spelling lists, vocabulary lists, stories on upcoming events and what the children are to be learning in the next coming few weeks. This was a great experience for me and has inspired me to create a real newsletter starting next year. I think parents will feel more informed and students will enjoy getting to read about themselves and friends in the newsletters.

Riverdeep-Money I had felt for a few weeks that the concept of money was a weak one for my little 2nd graders. I did some asking around and digging in Riverdeep's website. The website was very user friendly and I quickly added my students. The only thing I didn't like about it was that you have to search through the entire campus to find your students. It would have been helpful to be grouped by grades and a bit more time consuming. Anyway, I found that they have a great lesson about money. This was a great way to get the kids interactive with the money and actually get to count it out and pay for items at the toy store. They were excited to have a change of pace from the lessons in class dealing with paper and plastic coins. I enjoyed Riverdeep and plan to use it many times in the future.

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Photostory

For our PTA program, I planned and created a photostory about how our 2nd grade students had been learning to reduce, reuse and recycle. Students really enjoyed seeing themselves and parents enjoyed seeing them make a difference in our community. We had worked for several days taking pictures and giving examples of how to reduce, reuse and recycle. We went and took pictures of students picking up trash around campus. We took pictures of them sorting for recycling. The students had a great time showing off what they had been learning about in Science!