Week 4: To Inspire, To Achieve

Read-Aloud

The Ugly Duckling adapted by Sarah Toast

ISBN: 1 - 4127 - 6332 - 0

I read the book to the few people in class and it was about a swan growing up in the wrong home. Somehow his egg ended up with a group of duck eggs and therefore he felt different. His peers thought he was ugly and clumsy so they bullied him and he eventually ran away. As he grew up, he ignored the teasing and tried to be independent. He eventually lost his feathers and grew into a beautiful, strong white swan.
 



Learning Experience

The Newberry College trip let me go on my first college visit. I had never really seen a campus and the fact that it was all out becoming teachers when we grow up made it even better. The campus is rather small and very historical. The class sizes range from 5 people to 25 people at most. That is very small compared to larger schools such as USC or UGA. My goal is to go to the University of Georgia and be in the Air Force Reserves. While attending school I want to major in International Affairs, therefore I will have to become fluent in either French, Italian, or Spanish.

 



Current Event

The more they burn, the more they learn. It is proven scientifically that the more physical activity children participate in, the more they learn. Here are the key facts for allowing kids to have more physical activity:

Strong bones and muscles: Helps build and maintain healthy bones and muscles.

Reduces the risk of obesity: Helps reduce the risk of developing obesity and chronic diseases, such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and colon cancer.

Makes kids more confident: Reduces feelings of depression and anxiety and promotes psychological well-being.

Improves academic performance: May help improve students’ academic performance, including, academic achievement and grades, and concentration and attentiveness in the classroom.

Quote of the Week

"The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts." - C.S. Lewis

 

The job of all teachers is not to consolidate and shape what a child has already come to know but to expand their horizons and allow them to learn more than they ever imagined. When you irriagate a desert, you make it fertile. When you cut down a jungle, you make it bare and leave stumps, the remnants of what was once alive and frowing. Children have their own concepts and misconcepts about all subjects. You should not change this, but foster it.

 



Reflections

This week seemed shorter than the rest, but I believe that was because of movie time on Thursday and the field trip on Friday. I really liked the trip on Friday. I know it was a little boring and we did not learn much, but I still enjoyed myself. I wish we could have done some kind of cheer rather than be the only school without a cheer. Maybe we can go on another field trip by the end of the semester.