November 21, 2010

This past week in class was great!  We incorporated art into our lesson and we ended up using it for a few lesson plans (a few days).  Mine and my partners assignment was to teach social studies for 5 lesson plans and incorporating art in social studies can be difficult, but we made it happen, and made it so all of the students LOVED it.  

The American Revolution is what we've been teaching the kids for the last couple weeks, and something that we really wanted to find was a Reader's Theater about the American Revolution.  Well, since the Internet has everything anyone could ask for, we were able to find to one that went along perfectly with what we had been teaching.  When we told the students we would be doing a Reader's Theater they became so excited and really got into character.  We practiced everyday for 5 days and then performed the play on Friday for 2 classes and any parents who wanted to come.  The boys wore colonial hats and the girls wore aprons.  It was amazing.  

I truly believe that these students learned 100 times more by doing the Reader's Theater than if we would have just stood up at the front of the class and lectured.  It was something that they could get excited about and look forward to.