Week 5 of Peer Teaching

Week 5 of Peer Teaching

Throughout the course of this lesson we made a pop up book with partners around them.  At the start of this lesson the teachers asked us to come up with a few different things, like an animal a place and an activity.  After that we combined our ideas and made up our stories.  In my stories with my partners we had a story about Lucy, and her pets Wally the Walrus, and Samuel the Elephant.  The story itself is dandy about jealousy and forgiveness.  The lesson and project itself was rather easy, it did take some time to make the book though, and that was really the only issue with the lesson.
           I could use this activity in my classroom and gear it towards younger grades.  In my class i would have each student make their own individual book.  I would also gear the lesson toward the if you give a mouse a cookie books, similar to what we did in class.  I would then have my class build these over the course of an entire lesson, reading a lot of the books in the series.  I would use this class in like a 2nd grade class, and would tie it into the language arts and reading.

  In this lesson we made clay frogs, while there were tons of steps and directions, it was rather easy to follow.  After constructing the frogs we painted the frogs a wide variety.  First we learned about scoring and wetting the clay to make it smooth.  We used these techniques to make the frogs nice and smooth, and we used the scoring sticks to make the eyes of frog.  This was a great lesson it was really fun and it was also really hands on, it left me with the feeling of accomplishment as i could show everybody what I had built.
           I would use this lesson as part of a science lesson, i would use this lesson between the grades of 5th and 8th grade.  In this lesson we would cover animals that live in a swamp or a wetland area.  After taking the test over the lesson i would build the frogs with the class as sort of a fun activity for the students to cut loose on.  I would also have the students build another animal such as a snake or a fish so they would have plenty of opportunity to work with the clay.  This was a very fun lesson and it will allow the students to work with there hands.