Anxiety was in the air the day I rode the subway in for Day 9. There was pressure on the Mayor to close the school down due to Coronavirus. When we came is C told me that we didn’t have any classes coming in, but she had an assortment of projects that we could workContinue reading “Day 9”
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Day 8
Today the 3rd graders visited the library. They are in the middle of learning about the Black Live Matter movement, and wanted a positive book to read to their kids. C and I looked through some books and decided on, Hand’s Up by Breanna McDaniel. Review by Google Play: A young black girl lifts herContinue reading “Day 8”
Day 7
Friday was a very productive day. We had a call set up with our DOE Apple School Account Manager who was going to walk us through the iPad set-up. I arrived at 9am expecting a short call, but this amazing person stayed on the line with us for over two hours….and then called us backContinue reading “Day 7”
Day 6
A group of enthusiastic first/second graders came in first period and C gave them “parts of a nonfiction book” lesson. We sat down later with the teachers to discuss what their next steps are for the research project and said that they would like a lesson on note taking and paraphrasing. I volunteered create andContinue reading “Day 6”
Day 5
Our first period was a group of kids coming in to learn about research. The combined class of 2nd and 3rd graders were starting their research projects on estuary animals of New York. C gave a mini lesson on sources and paraphrasing before the students teamed-up to explore PebbleGo on their own. I realized thatContinue reading “Day 5”
Day 4
Because I’m only at McKinley once a day, I come in with a long list of things that I’d like to accomplish and assignments that are required to fill. But, there are only so many hours in a day. We hosted a second grade class walked them through a their Hermit crab research project onContinue reading “Day 4”
Day 3
Today, I decided to tackle the iPad project (30 in all). I spent the majority of the day going through the ipad cart, making sure they all had chargers and were charging. I took an inventory making a list of iPad models, serial numbers, updating their software if available and noting if they needed andContinue reading “Day 3”
Day 2
One of the campus schools has a really cute tradition called Open Access Work Hour. Once a month, classrooms open up for students from every grade to visit and participate in classroom sponsored activity. The library was open for a group of kid who were drawing Dewey shelf signage. It was a half day, soContinue reading “Day 2”
First Day
The first day of my directed field work my mentor showed me around the school and we sat down and talked about how she plots her schedule with the two school administrators. She walked me through some of the projects that she is working on with the different classes. I met her incredible parent volunteers.Continue reading “First Day”
Directed Fieldwork at McKinley 