Again, another great day! I had several parents come to me as scholars were signing out expressing how excited their child seemed to be about One Hen. I think we’re off to a great start, definitely! ;-)
With that said, I’m realizing more and more that given the time it takes to draw connections from the story with the students’ lives and discuss “key words”, it is taking me considerably longer to get through the book than what the lesson plan allots. Today, we got up to page 13, and that was even a bit more rushed than I would have liked. However, the students certainly seem to be enjoying the story and are doing great making predictions and summarizing! Related to the read-aloud activity, I did not use the “work hard” worksheet or the drumming again because of time.
The students especially enjoyed the Georgina Williams video. I stopped occasionally to discuss the similarities that students identified with the children in the video (and with other information we have discussed; for example, what day must Uncle Kwame must have been born and what season must it be given how it is raining?). They seemed to particularly engaged with this DVD, and are definitely looking forward to finishing it, based on their reactions when it was time to cut it off.
In place of the Day Name Dance, I worked with the scholars on the fufu song (from yesterday), and though they seemed a bit shy today, I plan to practice it for a short while (or if we have any down time) each day. I’m sure they’ll grow to enjoy it J .
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