EDRG 3321 Children Literature Books Blog #1
I went and Google Children’s Literature Books and several different websites came up. The websites would talk about the book and if the book had good reviews or not. One in particular website called http://www.carolhurst.com/titles/1st.html had some different aspects to it. First, it had suggested books for 1st grade and a bunch listed from A – Z. It was made available to you when you click on a book you could get the review along with other related material like books to use with it. On some of the books that you click on the title and it would even had activities to do with it. It also has the option of things to notice and talk about the book with the children. It is all laid out for you and gives you more than objective to do with that one book. One of the children’s literature authors that I happen to click on was The Great Kapok Tree: A Tale of the Amazon Rain Forrest by Lynne Cherry. I was amazed on all the extra information that came out with it. It had 5 extra books that to the book, The Great Kapok Tree was talking about so you could use it with that book. Also, had activities to do with the book, where to purchase the book as well.
Another website I found was http://www.teach-nology.com/teachers/child_lit/authors/. This website you could find an author on the list and everything you needed to know about them. It has the bio and the books that they wrote. This website might come useful later on in the class.
Thursday, August 27, 2009
EDRG 3344 Blog 1 How do you learn?
EDRG 3344 Blog #1
How do I learn?
There are several ways you can learn. One of my ways to learning is repetition, going over the material over and over helps me to remember it. If I will write it and then read out loud, then study it as well it sees to sink into my brain just a little bit easier. However, that always doesn’t work for me. There are many times I will wait to the last minute and study because it is fresh in my memory and I will do better on test. Test is one of my weaknesses. I am not a great test taker. I will do fine on all the class work but when it comes to taking the test I do badly on it. I have tried several different things but nothing seems to help. Sometimes, I need someone to explain it to me if I don’t understand it to make it clearer for me. For example, math is a subject that I have a hard time on it. My husband who is a math geek can get the answer without even doing the problem, irritating to me. Anyway, he will help me by showing me and relating it to something most of the time. I just try real hard to find some kind of way to make me understand and learn the subject I am preparing for.
When I took the multiple intelligence tests it suggests that my strength is in musical and I am an intrapersonal. Musical I can understand when I study or any free time I like to have music in the background playing. The music calms me and I am not as stressed with studying for the material I need to know. I also didn’t realize that I do put things into rhyme especially for my daughter when she needs to know something for school. I often will sing a song and put what I need to know to it. This technique helps me often. However, never realized I did that until this survey.
As for motivation, I myself put high standards on myself and want to make sure I get everything out of the course that I can and do it with an awesome grade. I will sometimes tell myself, “If I can pulled out an A in this course I will go by a new purse” something to that effect. Some other motivation that my husband does is; he is always telling me you can do it, have faith in yourself, and don’t sweat the small stuff. Work on what you can change and not the things you can’t change. You could say he is my little cheerleader. My biggest motivation right now is to complete school and be able to teach the kids. I really want to finished and be able to start in a classroom. I have a few outstanding teachers and I want to be able to give back what I was taught.
How do I learn?
There are several ways you can learn. One of my ways to learning is repetition, going over the material over and over helps me to remember it. If I will write it and then read out loud, then study it as well it sees to sink into my brain just a little bit easier. However, that always doesn’t work for me. There are many times I will wait to the last minute and study because it is fresh in my memory and I will do better on test. Test is one of my weaknesses. I am not a great test taker. I will do fine on all the class work but when it comes to taking the test I do badly on it. I have tried several different things but nothing seems to help. Sometimes, I need someone to explain it to me if I don’t understand it to make it clearer for me. For example, math is a subject that I have a hard time on it. My husband who is a math geek can get the answer without even doing the problem, irritating to me. Anyway, he will help me by showing me and relating it to something most of the time. I just try real hard to find some kind of way to make me understand and learn the subject I am preparing for.
When I took the multiple intelligence tests it suggests that my strength is in musical and I am an intrapersonal. Musical I can understand when I study or any free time I like to have music in the background playing. The music calms me and I am not as stressed with studying for the material I need to know. I also didn’t realize that I do put things into rhyme especially for my daughter when she needs to know something for school. I often will sing a song and put what I need to know to it. This technique helps me often. However, never realized I did that until this survey.
As for motivation, I myself put high standards on myself and want to make sure I get everything out of the course that I can and do it with an awesome grade. I will sometimes tell myself, “If I can pulled out an A in this course I will go by a new purse” something to that effect. Some other motivation that my husband does is; he is always telling me you can do it, have faith in yourself, and don’t sweat the small stuff. Work on what you can change and not the things you can’t change. You could say he is my little cheerleader. My biggest motivation right now is to complete school and be able to teach the kids. I really want to finished and be able to start in a classroom. I have a few outstanding teachers and I want to be able to give back what I was taught.
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