Thursday, February 20, 2020
Today, the students were working on a group literacy project challenge where they had different worksheets to complete with their groups related to literacy skills they are working on. The groups received prizes for first, second, and third place. All but about two of the students were engaged and excited to work on this assignment and worked pretty well in groups. My CT added doughnut decorations all around the classroom and brought in doughnut shop hats for the students to wear to get into character. It was a super cute and fun idea, and I will definitely love to do something like this for my own classroom one day! With this challenge, it made me realize the importance in creating team-building activities for the students to engage in. Of course, being young children, they came across issues that they felt needed to be handled by the teachers. My CT and I would step in only to guide them to realize they must work together and solve these issues together as a team to figure out how to solve the correct answers or any disagreements they had. Studies show the importance of creating team-building activities in the classroom, and the benefits it can carry along in the students' lives even after school, such as in the work place some day.
In Response to Amnah,
ReplyDeleteThis sounded like a great hands-on learning experience for the students in your classroom. I would be interested to hear more about the literacy activities that were used in order to create opportunities for team-work and problem solving.
Thanks for Sharing,
Caitlin Miller
Hello Amnah,
ReplyDeleteI think this is a great activity to use to get students more engaged within a lesson. Also it sounds like the students really enjoyed it and its a good thing to have them lead the literacy activities and you assist because it gives them a sense of responsibility. I also would love to do an activity like this within my future classrooms.
Thanks for sharing, Nadine