Stephens Practicum

Well, I'm glad that the semester is finally starting to get close to the end. I think we are ready to be done as well as our cooperating teachers! The Montessori style of classroom has never been a wonderful experience, but I have learned a lot from it. We taught our first lesson for Math this past Monday and it went fairly well. It was an exploration lesson that we co-taught, so it was a little crazy and loud - but I think they learned from it. We talked about weight, money and patterns. As far as Social Studies is concerned, the Africa unit is still continuing and they are still researching Africa and answering questions about it. It has not been very exciting or engaging thus far, but hopefully we have either missed those activities or they just haven't got to that part yet. The South America celebration was also cancelled for the end of the last unit that we were part of teaching. The two montessori teachers just didn't have it planned in time - the students were very excited about it too! Hopefully, they will get to do one at the end of Africa though. We'll see!