My First Science Lesson!! :)

  
I did my science lesson with Kelly, who was awesome to work with! We were very nervous at first when we came in the classroom. Luckily, we had 45 minutes to set up everything, talk with the teacher and practice the lesson together.  We were freaking our for nothing because the kids were so excited when they saw us standing in front of the classroom. One girl had a huge smile on her face and waved to us. 

The lesson turned out great. We started by asking the scientists what they know about rocks and we were nervous no one would participate.  We even had extra questions to ask them in case they did not have any answers. We were completely shocked. Every time we had a class discussion, almost every student had their hands up eager to talk. Some students had their hands up multiple times.  The little scientists did a great job coming up in pairs to gather their materials. We made sure to tell them to treat the rocks with respect and they should not put them near their mouths or throw them. Like Kelly said, one student was funny saying rocks do not taste good because he tried one when he was three years old. They really enjoyed observing the rocks and we told them to look for different properties of each rock and write them down. We realized we should have made that clear before we had them gather their materials because some students were not completely listening when we told them that.  

The students had a lot of interesting properties they wrote in their journals and some students said some very intelligent things. I was surprised at how much they already knew about rocks and how much they wanted to share with us.  Some students wanted to be silly and asked me how to spell booger. I did not think that was an appropriate word to use so I asked her to find a better word to use instead. Also, as Kelly said, another student referred to one rock as looking like baby puke and Kelly made sure to tell him that was not an appropriate word to use.  I had so much fun teaching the students this lesson and I am very excited to teach the next lessons. We are going to try and make it more exciting by gathering the students on the rug and reading them a fun story on the rock cycle. 

Overall, I believe Kelly and I did a great job and had a lot of fun with the students. The teacher was nice enough to sit with us after class and discuss how we did and make some suggestions for the next lessons. We really appreciated what she had to say and look forward to trying to improve throughout the semester. :)