Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Week 4 of Practicum

This week saw the Elmo used to help the students understand vocabulary words. The teacher brought different objects such as a family picture and a little Christmas tree to help the students understand the definition of a few new vocabulary words.

This week in one of my lessons I used the Elmo to help emphasize the learning in the classroom. The lesson was helping the students identify the digraph sounds ch, sh, tch, and th in different sentences. The students were able to see different pictures as well with these sounds in them with the Elmo, and see how to spell the words correctly. The students were able to participate by coming up and circling the words they could identify has having these sounds in them.

In a math lesson you could use the Elmo in helping the students understand how to use manipulative. This would help the students to enhance their learning, because all students would be able to see the manipulative, as well as help the teacher use them by coming up and explaining how they solved the problem.

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