WEEK FOUR

Overview:  

Week four marks the half way point for my placement in First Grade.  It was a very busy week for me and for the students!  We had picture day and a sound museum to culminate our science unit.  I had my midterm assessment (I passed!) and started teaching an after school group through a local organization called Flagship.    

Activity Highlights: 

Math: Number Bonds-  We introduced the new concept of number bonds this week.  This concept helps students understand the relationship between numbers and provides scaffolding for missing addend and subtraction problems. Number bonds give a visual aid to support students learning of

 part-part-whole relationships.

PVC pipe Organ

Science: Instruments-  This week we focused on making instruments and learning how different instruments make sound.  The students explored how to change the pitch and volume of their instruments.     

What We Made

PVC Pipe Organ 

Kazoos

Shoe box guitars

Rain sticks

Maracas

Drums

Wrench Xylophones

Wrench Xylophone

Science: Sound Museum- On Friday we ended our sound unit with a museum.  Parents were invited into the classroom to learn about all the different sound concepts we had explored during the unit.  The room was set up with 19 different stations for the students to escort their parents around to. Each station had a poster with questions the student should answer for their parents and an interactive activity or instrument.   

Sound Museum Posters