October 28

Today Ryan and I did our read aloud to the class, it went a lot easier than I thought it would be. Since we have been in the elementary schools these past few weeks, pretending like I was talking to a bunch of k-5 came easy.

We went over different writing skills and different activities that can be done to work on writing skills and why writing is important, because we write to learn.

We went over a writing strategy called R.A.F.T.

R.A.F.T. stands for..
Role-
Audience-
Format-
Topic-

and we had to choose an example and write a RAFT here was mine:

R- Liver
A- Alcoholic/Drinker
F- Complaint
T- Effects of Drinking

To Whom It May Concern:

I am writing to inform you of your toxic effects on other people.  You may be the life of the party but you sure are taking the life out of a few of us.  There's only one of me and I can only process 1 drink an hour and you decided to throw back 8 in 20 minutes, You always ask me to work over time on the weekends and even work late on the week days.  I can only take so much before I shut down or go into failure.  AGAIN there is only ONE of me and you need me! I help filter your blood which is essential for you to live.  I know i'm not alone when I say that you really need to cut back on how much you drink when you go out with your friends.  With that being said I'm calling it quits, I refuse to let you keep hurting me because you're only hurting yourself.

-Your Liver

October 21

Today we had a guest speaker, Tricia Easterling came to talk to us about different vocabulary and how to engage students in different word roots it was interesting to see how easy it is to connect the words once you have the root down. She was really funny and you could tell that she really enjoyed her job as a teacher. Also we played around with screen chomp which was a really cool way to engage students in reading and recording through technology.

October 14

Today in class we had 3 read aloud's and continued to talk about read aloud's in general.  We watched a video on a teacher who was very good at interacting with his class during the read aloud and made sure to get all of his students involved.

We also read an article about enhancing literacy in physical education, I learned that you dont have to be a content teacher to teacher content literacy, and that content literacy comprises all of the skills needed to develop, understand, and reflect on content.

October 7

I really liked our guest speaker Laura because she more easy to relate to, she went to teach and teaches PE at Falling Branch right in our back yard.  I really liked the different interactive games she showed us, Dr Poole and Shelton have showed us games like that which are easy to incorporate reading, spelling and even math.