First Field Experience

I will be in my field placement for 5 hours on Tuesdays, where I will be able to see science and social studies being taught in the after noon. I am placed in a kindergarten classroom, and the way that my CT and the other Kindergarten teacher teach science and social studies is by splitting up who teaches each subject in the afternoon. Therefore, everyother week I will be watching either a full science, or a full social studies lesson. On the weeks were I do not see the science lesson, there might be a science station at centers, or my CT might do a small science lesson at the end of the day if they didn’t get to it earlier. This past week, I saw the social studies lesson, but I had some time to talk to my CT about the science. She said that the unit they are currently working on is about recycling. The students are learning about how to/the importance of “reduce, reuse, recycle.” They will also be practicing separating different items into categories. For example, they will need to separate plastics from metals. To do this, my CT will have items such as plastic and metal hairpins mixed together, and the students will have to separate them. They will talk about different ways of doing this, such as using a magnet to grab the metal with. The students did not do this activity this week, but my CT said that the will be doing this activity, or one similair, in the near future. The students watched an episode of the magic school bus in class this week that had to do with recycling. My CT was teaching the other kindgarten class science this week, and I went with the class I am placed with to watch the social studies.