Mini Lesson/ Teaching Aid

Today, I was very nervous because I presented my Mini Lesson and Teaching Aid. My mini lesson was on Adjectives and my teaching aid was Fiddle Sticks.

We started with our mini lesson, Rhea went first and she taught us about our body parts. She first read us a story and at the end of the story she asked us what body parts did we see the character using in the story. She then wrote them up on the board and had us repeat each word after her. We then played a matching game, which we were given pictures of different body parts and we had to match it to the word on the board. Lastly, we were given an assignment where we had to write a sentence using one of the words on the board and we had to draw a picture about our sentence.

I presented my mini lesson next. I started out by asking what was the item that I as holding up and then asked them to describe it. I wrote the words that they mentioned on the board using a t-chart. I used the words "What" and "Describe" for the top of the t-chart. After we were done writing the two items that I brought in and the description of it. I then told the class that the word "What" is also the "Noun" and the word "Describe" is also the "Adjective". For my activity, I had them play a "What am I" game. I had 3 bags with something in it and I had the write down at least 3 adjectives that describe the item in there bag but they could not look into it. They could smell and touch it but they could not look into it. After, they said there words aloud and had the class guess what their object were. I ended it with having them use one of there adjectives in a sentence to describe there object in there bag.

After the mini lesson we presented our Teaching Aids. Rachel's teaching aid was a Bookmark Buddy and Compound Creation Cards. I really liked her teaching aids because they are great teaching tools for reading and I would definitely use them in my future classroom. Rhea teahing aid was a Write and Wipe binder. I really liked this as well because it can be reused over and over again. I presented my teaching aid last. My teaching aid is called Fiddle Stickes. Fiddle sticks is a game that could be used for reading vocabulary words, adjectives, compound words, etc.

Overall, today was a very educating day for me. I learned many ideas on how to better my teaching and materials used in the classroom.