Saturday, December 4, 2010

BackBLOGging

Unfortunately I was not able to keep up with my blog during my internship, but here are a few entries from my journal.

9/27/10
Today I did feely boxes and maracas. I wanted the kids to do a celebration dance to honor the rain like the Zuni Pueblo Indians. I forgot to demonstrate with my own maraca the beat I wanted them to do. I also wanted them to go in a circle, kind of like a conga line, but the kids didn’t move. I guess I needed to lead the line because when I said now let’s move in a circle, some of the kids were about to spin in place while the others just didn’t move at all. Some of the kids just wanted to watch the video. I always have my idea of how my lessons will go and all the things I’ll do and say, but I end up leaving a lot of it out because between managing the kids and handling all the interruptions, it gets lost in translation. I can’t wait until I’m able to juggle it all and let it flow naturally.

10/13/10
Today I did a lesson on adding more details or changing something on a drawing to make it better. I started by drawing on the board a tree with a horizontal line for a landscape and told the kids it was a drawing of a park. I asked for volunteers to come add something to make my drawing better, I had a student draw a snake, then the next student drew a lion eating the snake. The other additions were an egg, a slide, birds, a person, a cat, a puppy, another person (flying), a train, and a snake on the lion. Finally, I had a girl draw a cat near the lion and she finished by putting a little line on the lion. I asked her what the line was, (almost afraid to because the child who drew the lion has behavior/emotional issues and he already had said for no one to change his lion), and she said it was a scratch – in other words, the cat scratched the lion. This made my little friend very angry. He threw a fit and even tried to kick the student who drew the scratch. He’s a very volatile child. I had to have him sit at his desk away from the kids until he calmed down.

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