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Why oh why am I blogging when I have a lesson plan and another assignment to finish and need to wake up at 6:30am tomorrow?
Let me tell you what's been on my mind. While I should be feeling way burnt out from all this school, I'm actually thinking about stuff I want to learn and/or brush up on. I want to brush up on my Spanish so I can add it to my resume. Many of the students as well as teacher assistants in Special Ed are Spanish-speaking. It would be nice if I could join in on conversations, no?
I also want to learn how to tune a piano. How weird and random is that? Although that's something I've been wanting to learn for a while. Maybe because I'm too lazy to call a piano tuner to tune our piano at home.
A new thing I want to do is teach piano. (Which is really weird coz my own piano teacher predicted that I would teach piano one day. Of course I thought she was nuts when she told me that. I was 12.) Which means I need to relearn all those minor details such as measures, quarter notes and half notes, trills and triplets, rests and 4/4 time - stuff I've sorta skipped doing since I stopped taking lessons over ten years ago. I am inspired to teach piano after attending a god-awful piano recital in which my god-daughter was the best player (of course. Heh). Everyone else, including the teacher, stunk. It was really embarrassing. They broke every single rule my own piano teacher taught me. One that absolutely shocked me was the these kids were reading their music instead of having memorized it. Memorizing the songs was a must when I was a student, so that we could then concentrate on playing with feeeeeeling instead of being too busy reading the notes as we played. Anyways, yun lang. This is the random shit I muse about when I really should be finishing work that's due tomorrow. *Sigh*
(2:11am)
OKAY, I will have approximately 4 hours sleep tonight. Not good. Here's taste of tomorrow's lesson. How anal can I get! (Don't answer that:P)
Instructional Sequence of Events (All Learners)
1. Student teacher will call the learners to find a seat at the table for Story Time.
2. Student teacher will introduce the book, Close Your Eyes, a story about a little tiger who doesn’t want to sleep.
3. Student teacher will talk about the tiger and identify its furry stripes, whiskers, and the sound it makes.
4. The student teacher will read the story aloud to the class.
5. With verbal prompt, (and additional physical prompt to hand or arm if necessary) learners will point out objects and colors shown in the course of the book.
6. With verbal prompt, learners will verbally identify objects and colors shown in the course of the book.
7. At the end of the story, the student teacher and learners will discuss all the objects that the tiger liked (clouds, trees, birds).
8. Student teacher will then tell the learners that they will make their own picture with some of these objects.
9. Student teacher will distribute the materials to be used for the art activity.
10. Student teacher will show the class an example of what they will make.
11. Student teacher will ask the learners to find the green grass on the example.
12. Student teacher will give each learner the green grass that they will paste on their paper.
13. Student teacher will repeat steps 11 and 12 for each object the learners will paste.
