Your Name: Clara Gibbons

T0day's Date: 5/13/11

Days Worked/Described: MWF

Total Hours for Week: 6

The School: Robinson Elementary

Kind of Work: Computer lab, ed resources

On Monday, I went to the computer lab with Ms. Jackson (the substitute teacher for 306) and her students.  They worked on study island for about 35 minutes, and while it was more difficult to control the larger group (about 16 students), most of them did their work the whole time.  After school ended, I went to the main office and continued to look for education resources.

On Wednesday, too, I looked at websites for third graders.  I also revamped the school's cuipblogs website and put links on the site to all the resources I've found so far.  Under "Reading" are the mostly text websites that I'd like to have small groups of students work on--they don't like the reading comprehension exercises on study island, so I thought I'd try to find some websites that talk about subjects that they're more likely to be interested in.  I haven't had a chance to experiment yet, but hopefully I'll bring a group of about 5 students to the lab, have them read for 30 minutes, and then spend another 15 minutes having each student summarize what they've learned to their peers.  We'll see whether that actually works, but I can't get them to take the reading on study island seriously, and they need to get used to reading on the computer, etc.

Ms. Neely and I have been planning to have a kindergarten jeopardy game for all the kindergarteners.  We aren't sure when it will be yet, but hopefully it will happen before I leave for the summer!  I found a jeopardy template online, and I worked today (Friday) on coming up with questions that should be grade level-appropriate for the game.

On Monday, Ms. Davis and I will be bringing third graders into the computer lab to conduct CPS testing.  I'll be on hand in case anything goes wrong with computers during the test, and to help students login, etc.