I am Poem

                      I am special and brave
                      I wonder I would go to Europe next year
                      I hear the birds singing
                      I see a better world
                      I want to be a successful teacher
                      I  am special and brave
                      I intend to escape the false people
                      I feel lucky
                      I touch a star
                      I worry that I won`t see my children grow
                      I cry when I miss my family
                      I am special and brave
                      I understand my mother`s love
                      I say I believe in God
                      I dream that my dreams will come true
                      I try to be a better person
                      I hope everything will be all right
                      I am special and brave.

                                                          Expectations of my First Class

                    I always fell excited when the year starts and I have to enter a new class and meet different students. I like to prepare an interesting class for this day. I prepare games, songs, gifts to make a good impression at the first day. I think the students like me a lot because I bring new idea  to my class every day.

   
                                               Experience in Lenior City Schools

             I visited  the Elementary and High Schools in Lenoir City in the USA. It was a great experience for me because I could realize many differences between Brasilian and American schools. For instance, in Brazil we don`t work full time with the same students, the students do not switch classes and the subjects are a little bit different. The similar things are the way we teach and the problems are the result of the age and not of the  Brasilian schools.

Lesson Plan

Name: Patricia Martins Lopes and Cristiane Telles

Book: Country Schoolhouse

Objective:
Content Objective: Students will be able to understand how are the schools in countryside  and also their lives in the country and all that have in the book story

Learning Strategy Objective:  Students will create some sentences using the vocabulary list that was formed on the board while presenting the book; schools objects, animals...

Activate Background Knowledge: Show students pictures of some kind of schools and specially school farms and what we find in these school ( objects to study ). Teacher say the words of these objects and students to repeat and write on the board after students make sentences using these words orally and written

Brainstorm: The teacher will ask the students if they know what can they find in a farm and What must have in the schools in it. So the teacher catch what students say and write on the board.

Introduce new vocabulary: schoolhouse, country, grades, rooms,school objects(desk, blackboard, chalk...), pumped gas, vegetable, planting, weeding, harvesting...

Show slides with pictures that represent the new vocabulary, ask students to repeat.
Play a memory game of the vocabulary words to reinforce it.

Go through the book showing the pictures and asking the student to create a story based on these pictures

Tell the story by reading the book.

Homework: Write sentences using the vocabulary learned.

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