A Teachers Journey

 Agnes B. Elementary - Lesson 5!       When we first started our lesson, one of our students was missing as she was coming in late from a dentist appointment. For the first half of our lesson, we only had one child. This affected and changed our lesson a lot, but we had to be adaptable. We first started the lesson as we had planned with a little icebreaker. This was a small monster related activity connected to our first book. One person started off the sequence by making a monster movement of some sort (growl, claws, roar, etc). The next person had to repeat the first movement, adding their own afterwards. We went in a circle till everyone had a movement included and then did one with all of us together. We did this twice. Afterwards, we went over our vocabulary with our student. We had him clap out syllables and follow along with us via a slideshow and vocab cards. Vocabulary Words:  Letdown Scared Wobbly Personal      After reviewing vocab...

 Agnes B. Elementary School - Lesson 4!      We started off our lesson by asking the students how their Halloween went, since Halloween was last Friday. In our previous lesson, both students expressed that they do celebrate Halloween at home, so I knew that this was an appropriate question to ask. Both students went trick or treating; One student was a character from the new movie K-Pop Demon Hunters, and the other was Ghostface. They told us that they had a great time, got lots of candy, and even saw each other while trick-or-treating. After our brief conversation, we moved onto our icebreaker. Today, since our book was centered around music, we had them share their favorite genre of music and played an Instrument Charades game. For the charades, the students were asked to pretend they were playing an instrument while the rest of us tried to guess what instrument they had. After they took their turns, they asked us if we could go. Me and my co-teacher took our turns...