Fall Internship: Experience/Lesson Plans
For this internship, I was placed in Cupar, Saskatchewan in a grade 5/6 class. It started on October 18, 2023, and finished on November 29, 2023. I went into the fall internship thinking I wanted a younger grade, but now that I got to experience a middle years class I don’t think I will ever go back! I will say there are a few things that I need to work on like time management making sure my lessons are long enough to last the whole class and making sure that if they might go quicker than expected; to have a backup plan. There are also a few basic management skills that I would like to improve on like making sure I am not getting tunnel vision and watching for students who are off task. On the other hand, I feel like I also did a lot of things that were done very well! I found that I was able to have a lot of awesome conversations and discussions while teaching my class, making me feel like the students understood the work that we were doing! It felt awesome when the kids were able to point out the things that we taught in class in different classes throughout the day. For example, we taught figurative language in one class, and for the rest of the day, students were pointing out figurative language that they saw in the halls and in the books they were reading. I also did a good job at projecting my voice for my students, I kept calm and spoke loudly so all my students could hear clearly! Although I do have many areas where I can improve, I feel like it went very well!
The layout and design of these lesson plans may vary as I have been catering them to my professors’ and cooperating teachers’ preferences.
Lesson plan #1: Grade 5/6 ELA- Figurative Language Lesson Plan
Figurative Language Lesson Plan
Some of the exit slips that the kids did at the end of class that day!
Lesson Plan #2: Grade 6 Science- Space Genius Hour
Lesson Plan #3: Grade 5/6 ELA- Complex Sentences
Lesson Plan #4: Grade 5/6 ELA- Analyzing text features
Analyzing Text Features Lesson Plan
Lesson Plan #5: Grade 5/6 Art- Pastels and water colour Christmas Art
Beautiful Baubles Christmas Art