I truly cannot believe that is already October 2nd! It feels like just yesterday that I was reflecting on my first day back, and now it's been four weeks and the time has flown. September has been incredibly busy. I spent my first two weeks of school in the classroom at St. Michael Catholic School, which was absolutely amazing. I already feel as though I have learned so much and it has only just begun. I have also had two weeks of classes at the university, which have been very informative and have given me so many valuable resources for my future teaching career. Some of the tasks which I have been involved with so far include thinking about curriculum planning and reflecting upon my own experiences in elementary and secondary school in relation to explicit, hidden and null curriculum, critiquing a Phys. Ed. or Social Studies resource I have used in the classroom before, as well as presenting a grade appropriate gym lesson to my colleagues and explaining its relevance to the Ontario curriculum. There is still so much to do, and finding my school/study/work balance is going to be crucial for me to succeed during this semester. Meet Ms. Watson's ClassAs I mentioned previously, I am placed in a Grade 4/5 combined class at St. Michael school in Ottawa. I already love every day I get to spend with these fantastic students and cannot wait for my 6 week Practicum to begin in November.
One of my favourite responsibilities with these kids is the creation and maintenance of our very own classroom website. I am very interested in learning about ways to integrate technology into my classroom, and a year long class website and blog was something I was very excited about starting and overseeing. I personally wrote the first three blog entries for the class, with some input from the students, but mostly on my own to showcase what we had been up to each week. This past week however, we turned the creation of the weekly blog post into a language activity, and so I took a group of six students and we co-wrote this week's update. If you follow the link below, you will be able to see the very first student-written post for Ms. Watson's 4/5 class. mswatsonsclub.weebly.com/classroom-blog/best-week-ever Feel free to further explore our class site and catch up on all the awesome activities we've done and the experiences we've had in our first month. Stay tuned for my next post where I talk about all the exciting ways I have discovered to integrate technology into the classroom, my further university class assignments, and the interesting lessons I have created for my 4/5's so far. Thanks again for reading! -Miss. Coleman
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AuthorJessica Coleman holds a Bachelor of Education as well as an Honours Bachelor of Social Sciences, both from the University of Ottawa. She is an Ontario College of Teachers certified teacher, currently working towards a Masters of Education degree at uOttaw, as well. Archives
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