Rice Elementary
March - May 2014
My second student teaching placement was at Rice Elementary school. The school is located in Wellington, Colorado and is the home of the Raptors! The elementary school is k-5 and has approximately 400 students. My cooperating teaching was Beth Tennyson and she is the master of classroom management and keeping things organized! I learned so much from her and she had me take over all the classes in my second week there. It was terrifying, but I figured things out pretty fast!
In my time at Rice I met so many amazing students, staff, and parents who accepted me right away. I was fortunate enough to be able to help choose art and display it for the school art show, I even had the chance to make a project that was inspired by the nights performances. I was interviewed by students, wrote a newsletter, helped with the school musical, chose work for the district art show, created cross curricular lessons, helped with field day, attended assemblies/art meetings/staff meetings/collaboration days, had a grade wide competition, showed students how to turn wool into yarn on a spinning wheel... The list goes on!
The classes were on a 3 day rotation and I got to see most classes 1-2 times a week! My schedule and the projects:
5th- Memory Weaving
1st- Keith Haring Dancers & Egyptian Clay Scarab Beetles
K- Georgia O'Keefe Watercolor Flowers & Paul Klee Self-Portraits
2nd- Clay Cupcakes & Fish Paper Quilling
Lunch
3rd- Found Object Chore Bot & Chore Bot Accordion Picture Book
K-
4th- Found Texture Collograph
I was lucky to have been able to create a lesson for all grades. Mrs. Tennyson had very little input on the project ideas, beacuse she wanted me to try new things and see what would happen... I learned that some of the projects I would do for another grade level and that students don't care if you mess up, they will love any project you give them!
In my time at Rice I met so many amazing students, staff, and parents who accepted me right away. I was fortunate enough to be able to help choose art and display it for the school art show, I even had the chance to make a project that was inspired by the nights performances. I was interviewed by students, wrote a newsletter, helped with the school musical, chose work for the district art show, created cross curricular lessons, helped with field day, attended assemblies/art meetings/staff meetings/collaboration days, had a grade wide competition, showed students how to turn wool into yarn on a spinning wheel... The list goes on!
The classes were on a 3 day rotation and I got to see most classes 1-2 times a week! My schedule and the projects:
5th- Memory Weaving
1st- Keith Haring Dancers & Egyptian Clay Scarab Beetles
K- Georgia O'Keefe Watercolor Flowers & Paul Klee Self-Portraits
2nd- Clay Cupcakes & Fish Paper Quilling
Lunch
3rd- Found Object Chore Bot & Chore Bot Accordion Picture Book
K-
4th- Found Texture Collograph
I was lucky to have been able to create a lesson for all grades. Mrs. Tennyson had very little input on the project ideas, beacuse she wanted me to try new things and see what would happen... I learned that some of the projects I would do for another grade level and that students don't care if you mess up, they will love any project you give them!