Blog Post: Feb 15th

Overall Reflection 

This week I would rate I this week a 2. This week was pretty difficult because I have had to spend more time with edTPA and I feel like it was very hard to balance edTPA with lesson planning and what I need to be doing within the classroom to prepare. I would love if I could just add two hours to each day and that would have helped a ton this week! This week my pleasant surprises were my students understanding their North Carolina Cherokee Indians information within social studies time. My students loved to learn about this and they were able to successfully compare the Cherokee Indians to how we live our lives today. Next week we are going to continue to go more in-depth with fractions, and this is something that is still going to be new for my students. My short term goal and long term goal of staying organized have really been stressed this week, but in the future, I am going to do my best with time management and getting ahead as early as I can. This week I could have spent more time on everything, to be honest. This week we had professional development after school and then robotics so my time that I normally was working on my lessons and edTPA I did not have. This added to my stress of this week and getting everything done. For next week, I can get as many things done this weekend as I can. I can try to get everything ahead for the week so I do not have to focus during the week as much as I should at the end of the week. This week they took their math test on comparing and adding fractions. Students did well with adding fractions and subtracting fractions but could use more work with comparing fractions. This is something that students will work on during WIN time as well as during fluency review. 

Advice: I learned that Valentine's Day is a HUGE day for our students. They LOVE this day and this day can be very chaotic sometimes but also such a day to enjoy with your students!! 

NC Standards

• Standard 1 
• During this week I was able to implement 1C by attending a PD day on Word Study and how you can incorporate activities dealing with vocabulary and phonics. 
• Standard 2
•  During this week I was able to incorporate 2B by working through the culture of the Cherokee Indians and then comparing that to our culture now by asking specific questions about why and how we are different. Students were really able to see how we are very different now than how we were then. 
• Standard 3 
• This week I was able to incorporate standard 3D. I was able to incorporate a science experiment and have the students use magnets and get to explore with magnets and how some metals are magnetic and others are not as well as how magnets can create movement through the magnetic fields. My students LOVE magnets and this is something they all loved to work through and accomplish. 
• Standard 4 
• During this week I was able to incorporate standard 4D which talks about technology within the classroom. Students were able to work with kahoot during this week as well as working with a website called Study Island! 
• Standard 5
• During this week I was able to incorporate standard 5B which discusses how you can continually go to professional development and continue to learn and professionally grow. 

Other

During this week I was able to continue working on the professional development log as well continued to work on the classroom website. I do not need anything from my university supervisor.