Reflection #10

WHAT?: This week in field my partner and I just got to observe and help the children when needed. Our teacher wanted us to get a feel for her classroom and the children before we really started to do too much! It has been a really fun experience so far. We have been going in the mornings this week and so to be honest the teacher really has not done much that has been art integrated. The one thing that was art integrated was for guided reading and for the children's assignment they were to draw a comic strip of pictures of events that were happening in their reading book.

SO WHAT?: I thought that this was a very clever assignment, and that it would help the children express their visualizations on paper. It is very important that while the children are reading that they are having a movie playing through their head as well. This will help them see what everything in the book looks like not just in words. I think that the classroom really does need to have more art integration from what I have seen so far. However, I have just been in the morning so maybe during the afternoon she uses art a little bit more- which we are hoping. Another thing she does is with math the teacher is teaching fractions so she has the children draw out their math problems to help them better understand- I really enjoy this! It is one thing that I think really benefits the students.

NOW WHAT?: Based upon the first week so far it has been a great learning experience. In my classroom I know that I would like to integrate the arts more, especially because lately we have learned how much it benefits the children. I think that it is so important that the children get an opportunity to have art in their classroom, because it helps them learn so much more. I am hoping that in this classroom I will see more art integration, but if not I know that as a teacher I will be sure to integrate art more. I think that the children will enjoy it so much! There has been a couple of art integrated things, but in our lesson plans I know that we are going to try and use art as much as we possibly can for this class so that way they get the opportunity!