Month: February 2019

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Malene’s “Voices in the park”, week 8

It was Malene’s turn to have a lesson. She used “Voices in the park” by Anthony Browne.

It strated with talking about what the pupils thought the book was about just by looking at its cover. After that it was a read-aloud from youtube. After the read-aloud she asked the pupils (us) if our assumptions was correct and if we understood what happened in the book. The last thing we did was to write a new part of the book. In the new part you had to pick a new character whom the story was told by. Someone was a cloud, others a dog, I was a statue. All of the new stories was to made into a new book for the classroom!

I would really want to use this task as an opener for creative writing. Here the pupils have a finished story, they only have to rewrite the narrative and what that follows. I think I would have used it in fourth grade.

– Lisa

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Ann’s Cinderella, week 7

It was a slow monday. We had about children’s literature and all of these old men who has had a perspective on the child sometime in the past.
Suddenly this wierd woman with an umbrella on her head steps into the classroom.

Ann’s lesson had begun.

The lesson was a part of a bigger lessonplan about Cinderella and the different literature based on the original one. She had made an rebus or a scanvanger hunt of some sort out of cards. We are sorted into two groups and each group gets four envelopes. The envelopes are numbered one to four. In the envelope are there a question and different answer alternatives. The goal is to find the code to a lock on a chest with a price in it.

This lesson was really fun and can easly be adapted to different age levels by making the questions easier or harder. It is a great activity because in the group the pupils can have different strenghts and here they have to cooperate to solve the task. She also sneaked in some maths which is really great.

I can see this in seventh grade with a rebus that took the pupils around the school looking for clues. Then you’ll get some physically activity also. It is a fun way to end a bigger topic.

I also like that she used menti.com. By using this the pupils can set a word (or three) on what they have learned during the period they have had this topic.

– Lisa

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Week 6

Todays lesson started with Inger-Lise and Vilde having their lessons for assignment 2.

Inger-Lise had about English-speaking countries. It was a good, diverese lesson with both video and pupils working together. Their task was to make an presentation about an English-speaking country of their choice. I think this was a great lesson and would use it myself, but help them along the way with giving them more concrete criterias for the presentation. Maybe made some questions for them to answer. How long should the presentation be? Use of pictures etc. I would also talk about what a good source of information is. What sources are reliable and not and giving them some examples on good internet sources.

Vilde’s lesson was about a picturebook ideas. It was a great book that opened up for philosophically discussions with the pupils. The book hade beautiful pictures and a story that was easy to follow. But i thought maybe that she should have taken some time to stop the story to explain words or talk about the pictures. She had great questions on her powerpoint to get the pupils to talk about the books meaning. But i thought there where to many of them. I really want this book and use it. Vilde made this lesson for 4th grade, but i would use this book on later grades to make them reflect on how that their ideas are worth listening to.

After the girls lessons we talked about Roald Dahl and how to use his litterature in class. I really enjoy his stories but I agree with what Lotta said that his language could be difficult for the pupils sometimes. This because i makes up words. He plays with the language and twist and mix the words to new words. In this case his litterature is great to use when talking about words and how you can be creative with it. But that is a lesson for maybe 7th grade or even higher when the pupils have a greater repertoire of English words.

The last thing we did was an exercise with Dahl’s “The Twits” where we worked in groups with different chapters where we read them out loud.

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Week 5

January 28th.

Today we had lesson about adjectives and adverbs with Mari.
Adjectives are words that describes a noun. Or modifies. I learned that the adjective could be placed in front or after the noun and still have the same meaning. But sometimes it can change the meaning totally. For example:
My old friend Bob.
My friend Bob is old.

As a teacher will I make adjectives fun when introducing the lexical category.  I think that the best way to learn new words is to play with them. Have an oral exercise where we talk about what color different things have. This is to make the pupils realise that colors are adjectives.
For example:
The curtains are green.
The chalk is white.