Anna Calvaruso

Professor Johnson

EDT 317

25 April 2022

Final Lesson and Reflection

Over the course of this semester I have been working in the Skyriders classroom at the

Bombeck Family Learning Center. In my classroom I am working with children within the age

range of two and a half to five years old. Each student came to each day with different ideas and

energies regarding what they wanted to do for the day at certain workstations. While working

there I was able to observe the students' interests and think of different ways to incorporate

lessons into activities that they enjoyed doing. An activity that I consistently saw the children

excited about was when they had their outside time and were able to move around. Though they

had so many options of what they could do out there, it felt that it was easier to grasp their

attention because we were in their favorite environment. With that being said, I implemented a

lesson plan that was associated with my movement and dance lesson. I did switch the overall

concept to help connect with the Skyriders’ main idea which was navigation, but I did work with

the same standard as well as a new one that I picked out.

As I have previously mentioned, the students within the Skyriders classroom are

extremely active and always looking to find something new to do. I took that as an opportunity to

teach them about traffic lights and their importance within navigation while also getting them to

move around through the game Red Light, Green Light. Once I asked the students if they wanted

to play a game with me they were instantly so excited. I did my pre-assessment with them where

I held up a photo of a traffic light and asked if anyone could tell me what it was and its purpose.
Most of the students were able to put their hand up which excited me that they had some initial

understanding of the lesson. They were able to tell me why they are used, which I thought was

great as well. Next, we started to play Red Light, Green Light where the students were the cars

and I was the traffic light. First I went in order of how a traffic light works. I started with a green

light, then a yellow light, and then a red light and then did that backwards. Next, I started to call

random lights. At first it took students a second to get used to the random order, and they had to

think about how they were going to move around the track. Once I saw that the students were

understanding of the lesson, I stopped the game and gathered the students back around me to

review what they had learned. I achieved this by reasking the students my pre assessment

questions. Once I did this, I saw that the students felt more confident in their answers when

discussing a traffic light.

My students' answers to my post assessment questions showed me that this lesson was a

success. It definitely went as planned because I feel that my students will now not forget the

rules of traffic lights and their purpose through their movements in the game. They used their

bodies to help them learn. Both the students and I enjoyed the lesson. The Skyriders’, I feel as

I’ve observed, succeed best with hands-on lessons. They love to explore the items around them

and see what they are able to do with them. I definitely learned through my first account how

beneficial hands-on learning can be to students. Looking back, if I were to change any parts of

my lesson, I would have the students be even more involved in the lesson. Specifically, I would

give each student an individual role where they could decide if there is a traffic jam and the car

needs to take a different route, if a particular road is closed, etc. This could broaden students'

knowledge on navigation and how to bring that into the arts and physical movement. I think that
this would help to ensure the individual success of students. Overall, I enjoyed this lesson and

would teach it again because I felt that I achieved my objectives that I stated within my lesson.