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 * Waterford, Elementary School (Orlando, FL)

Monday, April 5th, 2010**


 * (*All real names are substituted for made-up names for teachers' and students' safety.)**

The students are back from their week-long Spring Break. The whole class was surprisingly good today after being from break. My supervising teacher has been trying to start testing her kids with this new test they have to administer called Batell. It's her first time administering it (she just went to the day training before Spring Break) so she's still familiarizing herself with it.

I showed her my lesson plan ("The Tiny Seed) for tomorrow so she can approve it.


 * Tuesday, April 6th, 2010**

Today, I implemented my first lesson plan at Waterford Elementary School. It's a Read Aloud using Eric Carle's "The Tiny Seed." I bought real seeds/beans to show students. It's a tough challenge keeping 12 three-year olds to pay attention so I made sure my Read Aloud was about 10 minutes long, not including the fun activity that was connected to the lesson. Below are the links to my youtube vids of how the lesson went. (2 parts about 6 mins each)

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Also attached is the actual lesson plan format (in Word) I followed to implement this Read Aloud following the guideline for our Internship class:

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