EDRG 3344 Reflection

I notice that we had a blog due last week about our reflection of our progress. Today, I presented my MGP about Frogs. I could not believe how nervous I was when I was in front of the class. My hands started to shake and I could feel the nervousness in my throat. Not sure why this was because I have taught in many class rooms with many students before. I think now for me I wanted to make sure that I did this assignment to my best ability and wanted the teacher's approval. Once I did the presentation that took just a few minutes it was no big deal. I know I just want to be able to come across to my students and have them engage in my classroom. I have learned so many strategies and techniques to help me teaching in the classroom along with meeting new people and hearing their experience as well. Looking forward to finishing up the semester and some time with my family for the holidays. Happy Holidays to all.

This is my last two author profile for the semester. Hooray for me! The author for this book is Gary Paulsen. The front cover of this book will attract the attention of your students. It's a little boy who is riding a lawn mover with sunglasses who looks cool. The book is about a comic story about a summer job that becomes a slapstick lesson in business as one boy turns as mountain of grass into a mountain of cash.

This book from the My little Pony series is The Runaway Rainbow by Nora Pelizzari. I remember when I was a child reading about the little ponies and now my daughter has several books from the series. The pictures on the book are so colorful and bright that will catch any child's attention. Talks about making the first rainbow of the season and how it gets away.

EDRG 3321 author profile

Here are so more author profiles for the class.

The Monster That Glowed in the Dark by Annie Ingle. This book is about a fuzzy monster that glows in the dark. Just expose the pages of the book to the light and the monster actually glows in the dark. When you turn off the light, he'll start to glow anywhere. Great book for kids to interact with each other and the teacher.

Dancing wit Manatees by Faith McNulty and illustrated by Lean Shiffman. This book is a reader book that will help the students with there reading. Simple words, and short sentences for the newest readers as well and vocabulary and sentences for beginning readers. It talks about manatees and how they are gentle, peaceful animals. Who live all their lives in water.

Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew by Carolyn Keene and illustrated by Macky Pamintuan. This book is about Bess and George are fighting and Nancy's caught in the middle. It's Valentines Day, and things are not all flowers and hearts. Nancy two best friends are fighting. Cute book for girls who like to read about stuff animals and so one. For about second grade.

EDRG 3321 Blog of presentations

Today was a few more groups presentation. All the groups did an excellent job. The group with the tree cookie and apple along with Wendi narrating the poem was great. They did such a good job on the poster and was quite interesting to me. The next group who had the newspaper was an inventive project. Students will love to make their own newspaper article and I believe that the students would have fun with it. The last group to go had the hand man game which was fun have not played that game in years. But not only was it fun but educational as well for the students. Some students wouldn't even pay attention that you are teaching them they will just think of the game and it is a win win situation for both of them. Great presentations.

EDRG 3344 Blooms taxonomy

Today in class we talked about the different levels of the bloom’s taxonomy. We are to give an example of each level.

Remembering: The students will be able to tell the differences between frogs by a picture and matching them up at 90% accuracy.

Understanding: The students will be able to explain what the main idea is by explanation @ 90% accuracy.

Applying: The students will be able to solve math addition problems using a chart that was made by the student @90%accuracy.

Analyzing: The student will compare living and non living organism and put them on a spreadsheet to show the comparison of the two @ 90% accuracy.

Evaluating: The student will evaluate their progress in their school work and put it into a report to give it to the teacher @ 85% accuracy.

Creating: The student will then take their reports with the early information and put it into power point presentation @95% accuracy.

EDRG 3321 author profile

This book is retold by Edith H. Tarcov and illustrated by James Marshall.

This book and simple words ad short sentences for the newest readers. Also has vocabulary and sentences length for beginners. This book is about a frog who rescues a golden ball for a princess and now wants to be her friend. Bright color pictures to keep the kids engage to listen while they are reading or the teacher is reading to them.

Watch Out, Ariel written by Jacqueline A. Ball illustrated by Caveman Productions. A story about paying attention Ariel is always not paying attention to people or the animals when they are asking questions which leads to her almost missing the ball. Later realized that paying attention the first time is always better. Bright colored pictures for the children as well.

EDRG 3321 author profiles for Nov 24

Grover Sleeps Over written by Elizabeth Winthrop Illustrated by Maggie Swanson.

This book is about Grover first sleep over and the challenges that come along with it. How is packs all of his favorite things to his fish, cereal, and animal.

Parents trust sesame street to help guide their children through important learning experiences. Cute book remember this one when I was younger.

The Little Mermaid by Megan E. Bryant Illustrated by Tonya and John Huxtable.

This book is about when Strawberry Shortcake visits the beach. She starts to daydream about a little mermaid name Pearl berry who wants to live on land more than anything in the world. Just like the original this is change to fit Strawberry Shortcake.

I love this book it is a soft to touch book. Written by Piers Harper. This book has a soft to touch bear on every page. So that it is interacted with the children and they will be able to touch and see the pictures. It's about a baby polar bear seeing the world for the first time. Very cute love it.

EDRG 3321 presentations

Today we had two presentations that were given in class. One was about 4 different stories in one genre. The four ladies that presented did an awesome job. The little doll with lamb was a great illustration and the children will love to see the puppet and little lamb. When Karen was talking about grace and in her story and then at the end of their presentation sang Amazing Grace I thought was very good. What a way to bring in morals and values in the classroom with out bringing up the subject that is so not aloud in school. I though this group did an excellent job.

EDRG 3321 Author profile week Nov 19

This book is written by Barbara Seuling and illustrated by Paul Brewer.

This book is about Robert who it is his birthday and trying to blow out his candles and his brother replaced them with trick candles and Robert wished that his brother would stop treating like a dumb little kid.

The book Muggie Maggie written by Beverly Clearly is about Maggie who writes cursive messy and does not want to continue to write in cursive and refuses. Her teacher makes her the messenger however the messages are in cursive and Maggie believes that they are about her and now she says she has a problem.

Cleary's usual perception and understanding of children, her ability to appeal to readers on several levels and her humor are enjoyable to read.

Lucky written by Jane E Gerver Illustrated by Jacqueline Rogers. This book is about two girls and one of the girls can't ride a horse and the other one can. First, the girl who can ride teaches her sister to ride and then they enter a race. Amy is afraid to jump in the show and will Lucky be brave enough to help her make the jump. Cute book my daughter has read this book several times.

Blog for week of Nov 19

I was not in class today. However, I heard that the presentation of the ratti tat book was good. One of my classmates was talking about it to me. How they made a play with puppets and even had bloppers and edits at the end of the skit. Said it was good and very cute. Wish I had been there for it.

EDRG 3344 Expository

Expository Piece

Is a poster board that will have the different types of food that they eat, and where they live and how they live. I am using the poster board so that the kindergarten class will be able to see the visual and place words with pictures. Hopefully, the poster board comes out great!

EDRG 3344 Star Trek

This was a painful class day for me. I don't like Star Trek and vowed to never watched it. However, it was a good example for the class and what we were talking about. I choose the question Is Captain Dathon's sacrifice worth it? Why?
Yes, I think that the Captain's sacrifice was worth is. He was trying to communicate between the two and knew that this would make it possible for them to. He wanted to let the other ship crew know that they were not hostile and wanted to be able to communicate with other people beside themselves. In the beginning both ships did not know what each other was saying and when the captain from both of the ships were beamed down each of the captain's started to put things together. So yes it was a huge sacrifice but a well worth one.

EDRG 3344 Descriptive Piece

I know I am behind on this, I hit a wall and really could not figure what to do. So, today I sat down and devoted the whole day to getting caught up and pushing threw to complete my work. So for my descriptive piece I am writing a descriptive poem. I have kindergarten for my age group.

Frogs

I am different colors from green, brown, grey, orange, blue, yellow, and purple.
I like to eat bugs and worms.
I live near lakes, ponds, and streams.
I use my sticky tongue to catch for my food.
I like to jump from one spot to another.
What am I?

A frog that’s what!

EDRG 3321 Author profile week of Nov 10

My daughter loves to read this book called

Junie B., First Grader Cheater Pants

by Barbara Park

This book is about Junie who has all the answers when it comes to cheating. So she thinks. Some of the questions she asked herself, What about copying someone else homework, what is a friend shares an answer with you is that cheating? Great book for a first-grade read aloud. Kids would enjoy it as well as a moral lesson in it and they wouldn't even know it.

Another author is Ellen Miles, The Puppy Place Where every puppy finds a home Princess

The story is about a dog who is spoiled rotten and needs to find a home to do her previous owner can no longer keep her and is not sure he will find someone who will treat her like a princess like she is truly is.

Charlotte's Web New in the Barn by Catherine Hapka

Everyone knows about Wilbur the pig. Who is friends with Fern.

Wilbur is a growing pig as there is no room for the pig at the Arable House and moves to the Zuckerman's farm where he will have to make new friends but will anyone as special as Fern. Then he meets Charlotte who becomes his new best friend.

EDRG 3321 Shared Reading

Shared reading is define as a collaborative learning activity. Some students find this activity to be fun and can't wait to do this in class. However, other who may have a learning disability might find this frustrating to them. A child who sits on the edge of their seat who might my ADHA would have a hard time focusing on the teacher. For me when we did the shared reading in class it was hard for me to focus. I am a visual learner and need to see what I am doing. I need to be able to see and read the book for myself so that I can put the words I am saying to the words I see on the paper. I can see where for me I did not enjoy this activity and so would other children. But since we have all kinds of learners we need to make sure the students are all engage and make it work so way.

EDRG 3321 author profile week of Nov 3

This week I bought another frog book from the bookfair at Texas A&M. I love my frog books this one is called Frogswritten by Nic Bishop.

He also has a website for his other books here is the website http://www.nicbishop.com/nic_bishop_home_page_016.htm

This book talks all about the different types of frogs where they live and eat and all about them. The book is very colorful and very detail pictures. Kids will love the pictures and the detail information on the frogs.

EDRG 3321 Ch 9 Non fiction

I am relieved now I have finally caught with all my blogs and author profile. In class when Prof. Pickett was talking about how boys tend not to like to read and usually don't get involved with reading because it doesn't interest them. We as teachers need to make sure that we have different kinds on fiction and nonfiction along with other genre books so keep them engage. I remember when she said I believe a student she had and he like reading horror books like Steven King and no other teacher could relate to him but she did and that help the student to know that it is OK not read everything else others are reading. But you are reading and that will help you in your future to have more words and knowledge. Teachers need to be willing to go the distance and find what will help that student was to read and continue to read.

EDRG 3321 author profile for week Oct 22

I pick the book Adventures of Riley Missio to Madagascar written by Amanda Lumry and Laura Hurwitz and illustated by Sarah McIntyre.

This book is about Riley going to Madagascar to find a rare lemur. On her way to finding the lemur she has many little adventures in finding trees called Baobab trees, and hissing cockroaches, mantella frogs. and many more. Once Riley gets back to school he tells of his adventures and how these animals are not found elsewhere in the world and how they are becoming so few. All the kids in the school are around him and all are trying to see his picture and be able to hear the stories. Nice book and colorful pictures.

EDRG 3321 Chpater 8 Fiction

We were able to write about the chapter or what we did in class so I pick what we did in class. This day Mrs. Pickett had us make a book about what fiction was to us. On the front of the page we put on their what we thought fiction was. Before this class if you would of ask me I would of just said something gloomy, dark and so on. Really didn't think of the fairy tales that are fiction. So the first side we had put words that our group thought fiction was like, fairy tales, mermaids, and so on. Then inside we drew a mermaid on water for a fiction picture. She was on a rock just sitting there. Although a life a mermaid would be nice and some would like to live that way we all know they are not real. In fiction books it gives the child the opportunity to use their imagination and picture somethings that they wouldn't normally do. This is why as teachers we need to be able to give different genres books in the classroom. So that all the children will have something that interests them and they will read.

EDRG 3321 author profile for the week of Oct 15

The book I pick for this week is The Pout-Pout Fish
written by Deborah Diesen Pictures by Dan Hanna


I purchased this book from a book fair just because of the colors of the book and the sign said it was a great picture book. When reading this book I fell in love with it. It was about a fish who thought he was a pout-pout fish so he was always sad. His friends tried many times asking him why he was always gloomy. Until one of the fish just went up to him and kissed him. He suddenly change his attitude and then began to say he was a kiss kiss fish and was kissing all the fish and was a happy fish now. I can't wait to be able to read this to my class. Really fell in love with the book. Great pictures but also has a little lesson that anyone can change their attitude just sometimes they need a little something from a friend.