Week 8

Looking at and evaluating our journals last week was very helpful.  Many of my entries are stories and rants.  I always seem to forget that we can write anything we want in our journals.  If I would remember this writing in my journal wouldn't be such a chore.  I think the main problem is that I am stuck in the ways of how I have used journals for other classes. 

Week 7

Looking at the different articles in the newspaper was a cool idea.  I had never consider there to be so many different types of articles in a newspaper.  It also gave me some good ideas about my multigenre project.  I really enjoyed doing the public service anouncement and I think it could be a neat part of my multigenre project.

Week 6

As a teacher of writing I haven't really taught any writing yet other than teacher students how to sound out letters.  The kindergarten classroom's writing lessons mainly consist of them drawing at this point and sounding at simple letters to label their pictures.  It is very interesting to see the students trying to write and spell the best they can.  Many of the students can sound out the letters to get the basic letters in a word correct but they lack the skills to know about things such as silent "e".

Week 5

This week we taught our lessons to the class and I chose to do mine over Urban Legends and Myths.  I always find it more difficult to teach a lesson designed for a child to my peers because I don't talk to them the same I would talk to a group of students.  I don't think this kind of teaching is very representative of an actual classroom setting but the experience and practice are still very helpful.