Exploring Some Movies We Love

Group 1 Stephen, Alicia, Kelsey, and Siobhan Teaching 

Overall I feel that the second day of fieldwork went a lot smoother than the previous day. The group as a whole showed more confidence with one another and the class. On February 6^th, the group taught an inquiry lesson. The group started off by reviewing the terms that were covered in the first lesson with the students. Siobhan did a great job with this, guiding the students through the review. She made sure that all students were involved answering questions. It was great to see that the students recalled most of the words without prompting. This is important because there terms are going to be continually used these next couple of weeks. After the students went over the terms with Stephen, Siobhan, Kelsey, and Alicia they were then split up into four groups according to where they sat in the classroom. The teaching group then explained to the students that in each of their groups they would be assigned an individual role. The students seemed excited about this, as this allowed them each to have their own part and responsibilities. Some of the roles that the children had were material manager, task reader, recorder, time manager, ethics manager, and speaker. The students for example had the roles like a person who kept the time, a person to give positive feedback to the group, and a person who speaks for the group. By giving the students their own roles, I feel that it helped the students stay on task. This lesson allowed the students to think further about movies and companies, by investigating statistics and facts about some famous movies, such as Happy Feet and Ice Age.