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Pre-K

I got assigned two pre-k students to create a book made by them with my help of putting it together. Each day we worked on coming up with different components of the story and combined both of their ideas together into one book. On the first few days we came up with characters and plots. We later worked on what the climax would be and then eventually how it resulted in the end. It was fun hearing their creativity be put onto paper through their drawing and by how they described the story to me. Although this was fun, we did struggle some days. Some days my students didn't want to draw and other days they didn't want to speak. One of them had a hard time staying on topic and would try to distract my other student, but she was able to pull it together. They also had a hard time coming up with new parts of the story so they would just repeat a scene even if I already reviewed what we had so far. So, it was challenging to get them to create new plots and situations in the story....
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Video Responses

I found it interesting how the teacher would read the student's work out loud to her and have her figure out what needs to be changed, but also with support to guide her to where her writing needs to improve. I like that she celebrates the student's simile choices and gives the student confidence in her writing. I feel like as I teach writing to my students, the thing that would be difficult for me to teach is grammar. I can speak and write how a sentence or paragraph needs to he structured, but to explain why and how to point that out would be difficult for me. My grammar is also not a strength of mine to begin with so it would be interesting to teach my students these things. I found it interesting how he changed up the material with how the students will learn to spell because as a student I enjoy a change up. Teaching spelling for me would be difficult because again, as we were taught to read and write, we don't always know why our language works the way it does. I...
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Help

You know what drives me crazy? School drives me crazy, and it drives me up the way because it's stressful. There is so much due and right when you think its possible to vet everything done on time, professors will unload group projects and other assignments. I already have so many things going on outside of school that all this on top makes it really hard not to get anxious. I'm tired! I just want to enjoy the Thanksgiving break and I knew I would have to work on assignments during the break but with more being added, I will have to work majority of the break. Where can I rest? Under all these due dates, I'm sufficating.  I know it could be much worse. I seriously can't handle school right now, but there are people that desperately wish to be in School. I will try to be more thankful.
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Charm Is Deceptive

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In a land far away, there lived a girl who laid her head in a meadow. She lived there for many years, but never once came across the abandon tower, that is until she saw it in the far off distance hidden between the trees from where she sat on her favorite wooden swing.  She swayed through the trees to reach this place of mystery. She didn't see it any more. Before she was about to give up, she walked through two tall oak trees and suddenly a huge shadow casted over her. The young girl slowly lifted her eyes to what was above her. Standing at 20 feet tall was the abandon tower. It was lonely and dim. With curiosity jumping through her bones she began to climb the vines that clung to the tower. Making her way up she finally came across the only window of the tower. She put her hand up to her eyes to shield them from the beaming light that came from what was inside. When she looked inside she couldn't believe what she saw. Inside were the finest of jewels and crystal mirrors. The...
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Forever Friends We Shall Be

There once was a whale named Tullulla. She loved to glide around the ocean tossing and flipping her favorite rubber duckey around. She called him Arnold. One day a sailor on a large ship was drifting on the sea and noticed the rubber dickey shooting in and out of the water and up in the air. He noticed it was missing a wing. Worried for the safety of whatever animal was playing with this ducky, the sailor made it his mission to retrieve the ducky once it was bolted into the air again. "I'll replace it with a new and better toy." The sailor made his way toward the whale to grab the ducky. As he approached the toy, he froze. He was now standing before a blue whale the size of a school bus. "I don't want to become this whales' new play toy." So the sailor decided to leave when suddenly he was shot up in the air about 100 feet. He began screaming and when he was being drawn back down to earth with the nature of gravity he saw that he was about to dive head f...
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The Story Teller, the Artist, and the Reader

This assignment taught me that pictures can speak just as much as words can. Looking back at old drawings I saved from past students, I can see now that it wasn't just scribbles and lines. Their work had meaning and a story to tell. It was a story that they created or visioned in their own minds and was able to project it onto paper and do so without a single word. I enjoy writing, but I don't feel as though I am a writer. I enjoy journaling and using pictures to express my thoughts and feelings.
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