Tag Archives: practicum

01/31/16

Weekly school visits (Jan 28, 15)

It is good to be back in the classroom after not being here last week. The classroom layout has changed significantly changed since the last time I was visiting the class.

Instead of the round tables being at the front of the room, the rectangle table was placed in front instead. Throughout the months I have been in this classroom, there has been numerous changes in the format. This is because there is an emphasis on the importance of the prepared environment in the Montessori philosophy.

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01/21/16

Weekly school visits: week 3

Today we ran our animal kingdom inquiry first thing. I showed the class how to use a mind-map to organize what they already know about their animal kingdom into categories. They answered my questions and looked interested in creating their own. After my demonstration, we put them into the revised groups we made at the end of the day last week and I drew their assigned animal kingdoms out of a basket because then it would be randomized.

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01/21/16

Weekly school visits: week 2

Today is my first full day of my classroom visit. We started the day with language arts where the students were able to work on independent Montessori materials after they finished their journals. Some students used the entire time to work on their journals while others finished quickly and started on their independent Montessori work.

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01/21/16

Weekly school visits: week 1

Today was my first day in the Grade 1-3 classroom. I arrived to the school early but my SA was running late so I had to wait by myself in her classroom for a while. I wasn’t exactly nervous coming into the classroom but the anticipation of meeting her started to build up my anxiety a little bit. When she got to the classroom, she put me to work right away! She told me to take the children’s artwork off the bulletin board outside and replace it with a new art project they made.

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