Retelling Lesson

For this lesson I chose to use the book, "There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Bat".  I read the book to the children and we then completed many activities on the objective of retelling. It was such a fun lesson and the children really seemed to enjoy it!

We used my handmade felt board to put the items in order that the Old Lady swallowed. The students loved getting to take turns sticking the items to the felt.

I assessed their knowledge by allowing them to glue the items in order onto a piece of paper. This is definitely a lesson that I will keep in my teacher tool box for my upcoming years!

Concept of Print Revamp

For this assignment we were to look up a worksheet that assesses concepts of print and revamp it into a more engaging activity. Our world is too advanced for simple, easy worksheets. This is why this assignment was so important. Our professors are getting us in the mindset of creating activities that our engaging and developmentally appropriate for our students. I will upload an image of the worksheet I chose to revamp and an image of what I turned the worksheet into! I chose a worksheet that assessed knowledge of capital and lowercase letters. I revamped that worksheet into a hands-on activity. When I completed this activity, it was close to Halloween, so I decided to write capital and lowercase letters onto the outline of a pumpkin. This activity could easily be redone with any object to fit a particular theme. The children loved matching the letters and I am excited to utilize this activity in my future classroom!

Concepts of Print Lesson

For my concepts of print lesson I chose to create my own book to evaluate the children's knowledge of print. I allowed the children to use expo markers while reading my book to show their competency of print. We drew arrows, circled punctuation, and many other things. I was looking for the children to understand the directionality of the words and how to flip the pages. It was a very engaging lesson and I feel confident that I will use it again in the future! I will upload a picture of my book below.