Field Experience Reflection

Field was a great experience. I loved teaching our lessons. We taught on the branches of the government, we integrated art into our lessons twice. The first time was through drama. when we were teaching about the legislative branch, we had one child pretend to be a senator, while the rest of the class split into two groups one in favor of a law being passed and the other group was against. The "senator" walked through the two groups while they tried to persuaded the senator in their direction. We did this to show that a senator had a stressful job. This was very similar to the alley drama activity we did in class. The second time we have the children write a song about the branches of the government. The art activities were great and the students loved them. Our class also went to art once a week, they were working on paintings durning this time. We were also able to attend a play. These students have a great opportunity to experience art regularly 

Visual Arts Reflection

Visual Arts is my favorite of the fine arts we covered in class. I really liked the day in class when we went around to different tables and did shape, color, texture, ect. It was a lot of fun and I learned a lot about using visual art in the classroom, I loved the painting you showed of the first grade class, it was amazing to see what they were capable of doing.  I also liked that the presentation of our author illustrator was different then a normal lessons we did in class. There were a lot of good ideas, I love children books and feel that there is a lot to learn from both the pictures and the text.