A-B-C Summarize

“Work may be good in the sense of being excellent in quality” (Gardner, p. 128).  It is hard for me to say that this week’s project is excellent because of the time restrains that I had.  It was a rough week in my house with my husband being in the hospital. After reading this quote, it made me feel better about this project and that it might not be as bad as I am thinking.  Project 2 was definitely by far the most challenging.  I started by trying to think about a teaching strategy that I use in my classroom and it was hard to find one since we use the creative curriculum.  We only have the children for six hours a day and three hours is play, and two hours are spent at meals, so there is not much time to do group strategies.  The one strategy that I like to use is A-B-C- Summarize because my children need a lot of work on their alphabet. My children do seem to like when we use it.  I like to use this strategy one-on-one or in a small group.    When I use this strategy with my children, it covers a couple of our objectives.  The objectives it covers are using writing and drawing tools, writes to convey meaning, writes name, identify and names letters, and uses letter sound knowledge.  After the children complete their alphabet, I would put it together and make it into a digital book and maybe record the children saying the letters and sounds. This would reinforce the children’s knowledge of letters and letter sounds.  This would be a major project for my children.  I read in our Gardner text, “Children may well benefit from carrying out evocative classroom projects or from pursuing a unit on generative topics like “patterns” or “water” or the cradle of civilization (Gardner, p. 55).    I agree with Gardner that children benefit from projects.  I know my children love to do science projects and any projects with the teachers.  I know that I always enjoyed completing projects and felt like I learned more from doing a project than just learning something.  I think that adding digital media would reinforce this topic and strategy with my students.

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