Sept 2

1a. When I was a student I was able to build a form of friendship with my teacher. We weren't "friends" but I knew that she cared about me. I learned to love school in 4th grade because she was so kind to me. As a teacher it will be very important to me to let my students understand that they are important people, they are not just "another 4th grader" they are a person with needs and wants that are meaningful. I will not treat them like what they have to say is not valuable.

End of Week 3

We only taught once this week and I think it went pretty good. It was also good to go on our field trip with the class. We went to the BYU planetarium with the kids, and then we went to the world fair there on campus. the kids were able to learn of different dance styles and music, and able to see interestin things from countries around the world. Overall I would say it was a fun and successful week

End of week 2

This week we finished teachin all our lessons. I felt that the one we incorporated the element of voice in worked out really well. the kids had fun making being the voices of different Greek gods in a slide show presentation. some participated really good, and others just read the script they wrote in a monotone voice. We created newspapers and the sudents learned elements of line, and spacing, the newspapers were really creative and fun. Overall, it was really a good week.

Field, week 1

Week one was great. We taught for the first time on Friday and it worked out pretty good. We explored voice and expression while doing voice overs for the different greek gods in a film we are making as a class. One thing we should have done better would have been to practice a little bit more with voice, and we should have given the students something to do when they were finished. some finished early, then were just goofing off and it was kind of a management mess (not completely, could have been better, could have been worse). The End

Visual Arts

Learning from the different artists was great. I think that using colors and other visual arts can really be helpful to a student's learning. It is also great for the students to express themselves. Sometimes, school can be the only place a child has to express him/herself. if they can do it in art, as an assignment, I have done my job. I don't care about grades, I care about helping students reaching their potential

Music

I will definitely use music in my classroom. I love music and I know that it helps me remember things, so it would probably help students too. I love math songs, just ways to remember multiplication tables and stuff. and the best way to remember stuff for history is to put it to music. to this day I remember the preamble because of a song, and also a lot of the presidents (they get a little fuzzy, but I never did it as an assignment, I just learned them on my own). YAHOO FOR MUSIC

DANCE!

Dance is very important. I think that it will be important incorporate dance because it allows students to express themselves in a way that they don't normally do it. It is different from dance classes because the end goal for dance classes are recitals. The end goal for dance in the classroom is to help the class grow and learn. I will use it in my class to do just that