Final Posting (Reflection on Our Lesson)

Overall, our lesson went very well. My partner and I began to prepare when we first started to record our podcast. We would brainstorm different ideas about how we would teach Jimmy Lee Did It to first graders. Eventually, we came up with the objective that students will learn about words that rhyme. We came up with an index card game where the students were broken down into groups and they all had different index cards that rhymed. The students had to figure out which words rhymed and put them together. This was a great idea and it worked out well. However, we had the classroom broken down into groups the whole time and that didn't turn out too good. It was a little difficult to keep track of everyone when there were some students whose backs were turned towards us. If we were to do this lesson all over again, I would difinitely have the students sit in rows instead of in groups. The lesson plan would have been more effective if we would have included our podcasts! We completely forgot to inlcude it after we had worked so hard on it! If we would have used the podcast in the story, we would have used it first instead of reading the story twice. In a future lesson, I would definitely use a podcast while showing students the pictures of the book so that they can also get a visual of the story!