A little about me!
Hello! My name is Paige Petty. I am 21 years old. I just recently got engaged and I am getting married May 28, 2011. My hobbies include fishing, shopping, spending time with my mom and family, and watching movies and football. I am a Senior at the University of South Alabama and will I graduate May 14, 2011. I am going to school for Elementary Education. I graduated from J. U. Blacksher in Monroe County and then went to Faulkner State Community College for two years. I graduated from Faulkner in the Spring of 2009 with honors. I was a member of Phi Theta Kappa. That Summer I worked as a youth counselor at Poarch. That was definately an experience. It showed me that I wanted to be a teacher. In the Fall of 2009, I started my first year at the University of South Alabama. I moved from Uriah, AL, which is in Monroe County, to Spanish Fort, AL to be closer to school. In the Spring of 2009, I was at Daphne Elementary School in 2nd grade for pre-sequence. This was a great semester. I learned so much from my cooperating teacher. For sequence, I am at Delta Elementary School in 5th grade. The school, staff, and children are great. This school is small and reminds me so much of the school I went to.
Below I have summarized some of the lesson plans I have written, but I have also included the whole lesson plan. If you look on the right hand side under my profile, there is a section called "Pages" which will include all of the lesson plans. Hope you enjoy my blog!
Read Aloud
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| Reading "A Widow's Broom" |
A read aloud is a planned oral reading of a book or print excerpt, usually related to a theme or topic of study. The read aloud can be used to engage the student listener while developing background knowledge, increasing comprehension skills, and fostering critical thinking. A read aloud can be used to model the use of reading strategies that aid in comprehension. For my read alouod, we read “The Widow’s Broom” and made predictions on what we thought would happen. Every few pages I would stop to ask students what their predictions were and asked them to write them down on a prediction worksheet. The worksheet asked what they think would happen, clues from the story that helped make that prediction, and then if their prediction was right. I also stopped to ask students if they knew what a word meant and then to name a few synonyms for that word. After reading the story, the students were asked to complete the last section of the prediciton sheet, which is where they wrote if their prediction was right. I then asked the students to name some of the vocabulary words, their definitions, and synonyms and/or antonyms of the words. We also did a fun activity. We made a witch out of nutter butters, Hershey chocolate, M&M's, and icing. The green icing was used as the glue that held the Hershey chocolate hat and M&M eyes and mouth to the nutter butter. The students showed their creation to the rest of the class and then enjoyed!
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| Students hard at work on their witch. |
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| 3 final products. |
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