October 29

10/29 8:30 – 10
Today I observed the second half of ELA and math class. In ELA the students presented their book shares. The class is participating in a 25 book campaign so they are all reading books and present them on Fridays. The students had different options on the way they could present. One student chose to present her project with a PowerPoint. During her presentation she used a pointed to highlight the main points. It was done in the same manner as I saw this summer at FRES. The PowerPoint was fairly basic, as it did not have any pictures or animations. It did however stray from the basic slide format of just the title and some information on the bottom. It utilized the information side-by-side format and some slides did not follow the templates. These changes worked for the presentation and it was executed nicely. The four other students who presented did not use technology.
After ELA was math. Math started off with the students organizing their portfolios for their student led conferences. After the portfolios the students did a warm-up using the SMART Board. The students then used the white boards to show the class their work. The SMART board could have been used to solve these problems. She could of also hidden the answers on the board so that the answer could be revealed after the students showed their work. After the warm-up the board was used to do practice problems.


Today's Time: 1.5
Total Time:5.25