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Student Name:Mackenzie Sims

Semester(s)/Year: spring 2023

Placement Information

Cooperating Teacher (name and email): Flemming, Jennifer jennifer.flemming@k12.sd.us

School: Madison Elementary

Grade:6th

Dates of Attendance -

Date Time Activity

2/14/23 9:44- 11:00 Observed

2/21/23 9:44- 11:00 Observed

2/28/23 9:44- 11:00 3 Conferences with students

3/7/23 9:44- 11:00 Book talk

4.10.23 I approve all attendance

dates!

Timesheets:
You will enter your 5 hours into the COE field experience database.
Reflection Log (students please link your reflection log here)

Your reflection should include a brief summary of the time spent in the classroom with a
reaction/reflection. You will need 4 to 5 entries depending on how many times you visit the
classroom to meet the time requirement.

Content to include:

Summary- Summarize what you do during each visit

● What did you observe the teacher doing?

● What did you observe students doing?
● What did you do?

Reflection - Choose one or two of the following points to reflect upon each visit

● How you can connect to what you observed and did to you have learned in class
● What you learned about yourself as a teacher and/or person- professionalism
● What you learned about children and reading at this level- knowledge
● What you learned about developmentally appropriate practice at this level regarding
planning, preparation, management, instruction, assessment, and technology in a
reading classroom

Observation 1: This day I observed a lesson and the teacher read aloud to the students the
book they have been reading as a whole. It is A Long Walk to Water and they all were so
engaged as the teacher read to them. She did an amazing job asking questions and allowing
the students to make some connections or predictions. Then she read this article and the
students worked on finding information within the article and making assumptions. They
worked as a class answering a couple questions and then they individually found the last
couple of questions. I just sat and observed this day. The teacher as she read to the class i
noticed what we have learned in class with predictions and how she worked to really engage
them into the story by this.

Observation I observed a book talk given by the librarian to the class. She went through and
read little parts of the book or quick summaries while giving some books that were similar to
the one she was showing. The students seemed to have a lot of fun doing this. They would
find a book they were interested in and read the back of the book and add it to their booklist.
Then they would talk at a table and share the one they picked and what it was about. I sat
with some of the students as they did this. I personally really enjoyed seeing this book talk
because it was exactly like how we learned in class and made me feel way more confident in
planning my book talk.
Observation 3: This day as the students silently read, I Conferenced with two of them. Then
the teacher read A Long Walk to Water again. She first taught them some of the terms that
were going to come up that they may not know. Then as she read she let the kids connect to
parts and predict again like last time. All the kids seemed super engaged as she read and
were all shocked when one of the parts happened and began to talk and say what they
thought about it. then the kids read an article about chocolate and worked on locating facts
about it and answering questions the teacher had printed out for them. She made it fun for the
kids and let them all talk about their favorite chocolate candy and share with the class. Then
they got back to finishing up the answers on the worksheet. What I saw connect to the things
we have been learning in class was the layout of the lessons. She did a great job of following
a similar layout so the kids never seemed to fall behind. She gave them their I can statement
at the start of the lesson and continued to work through all the I do, we do, and you do steps
even if it didn’t seem like it was on purpose she followed this layout seamlessly.

Observation 4: This last day the students let me give them a book talk after their silent
reading. After that they read A Long Walk to water again and kind of recapped what has
happened recently in the book. After this the students worked on roots by watching this video
that talked about a bunch of words that had the same root and the meanings to each. The
children had a sheet with bubbles to fill in and followed along with the video. As he video went
Mrs. Fleming wrote them on the white board which I thought was helpful with the video
moving a bit faster paced. I could connect to this lesson with things we have learned in the
classroom by connecting to prior knowledge. A lot of the words shown were to do with prior
knowledge and she made sure to explain the ones they for sure might have never seen
before. I enjoyed observing Mrs.Flemming's class a lot for the classroom management aspect
a lot as well. She has amazing control over the classroom and she even said it was a more
talkative group but I was amazed with how well they behaved and listened to everything. They
seemed very attentive to what she was teaching and their was a lot of class engagement.

To submit your work, link your copy of the plans/summaries for your 2 student engagement
activities below.

● Linked Doc Choice 1:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bCMQZAhOR6NWe9lpGuIb4E1pxd6Tl0eGoAH5
0YjE3uA/edit?usp=sharing
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● Linked Doc Choice

2:https://docs.google.com/document/d/178URjY6fPO6szVrsNYgBbxSQtfDK4qthVitIBcz
fO34/edit?usp=sharing