Lincoln Logs

The linking learning never stops!!! Did you know that John Lloyd Wright, son of Frank Lloyd Wright, had some connections to this area — he designed several homes in Long Beach and Coolspring Elementary School in Michigan City!! He was also the inventor of Lincoln Logs.

Thank You

On behalf of Dr. Eisenhauer and myself we want to thank you for a great semester. We have both enjoyed working with all of you and through the many projects we planned this semester we were able to truly find your strengths as future teachers. Continue to persevere to make your dream of becoming a teacher come true. You are almost there and will soon reap the benefits of having your own classroom filled with naturally curious learners.

Great summer reading

Here is the reference for the book I shared in class today: Peterson, R. (1992). Life in a crowded place: Making a learning community. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann. It will give you some things to think about before you begin student teaching!
Enjoy.

Last Class

Hey everyone! Don't forget to bring what you signed up for last week to class tomorrow!!

I am currently working on making the informational graphs relating to the feedback from Pine Family Night. I was wondering if anyone can help me out in naming all of the stations that were there that night. So far I have:

Music
Toys
Perseverance (what did the station entail?)
Log Cabins

So I believe I am missing two stations. If you could let me know which ones I missed I would appreciate it. Thanks!

Pine Family Night Feedback

For your information, the data from the feedback forms from Pine Family Night are now posted. You may choose to use this for your ICP Key Assignment, or you may choose to write a narrative analyzing the assessment/evaluation process that we used. Did it work? Did you receive the information you wanted? How might you adapt this in the future? You may submit your Integrated Curriculum Plan to Dr. Eisenhauer on Taskstream anytime before Monday. Good luck!

Last Class

Just a reminder we will be having a panel of student teachers visiting our class on Monday, April 27, 2009 to talk about their student teaching experiences. Come to class with any questions you may have concerning student teaching. The panel will be there at 8:30 a.m. so please be punctual.

Also since there is no education banquet this year Common Denominator will be performing for the student teachers and any other education students who would like to celebrate the end of the school year on Tuesday, May 5th at the Crossroads Lounge in Westville from 4-7 p.m. You must be 21 to attend. This is a free event. Come on out and support Graham Smith, Dave Ferris, and Dr. Pratt. Hope to see you there.

Confused about Feedback Forms....AGAIN!!!

I was thinking this weekend about the feedback form graphs from the family night. I was wondering how each group was going to get the information from those to make graphs to represent the data?

Reader's Theatre

The students of Communication 240, "Introduction to Oral Interpretation," will present Potpourri of Literature, a Reader's Theatre performance on Monday, April 20, at 11:30 to 12:45 in LSF 2 and on Sunday, April 26, at 2:30 PM also in LSF 2. These performance represent the 20th year anniversary of this event that has presented students performing and reading various pieces of literature developed upon a specific theme. This year's theme and program title is "It's About Time." Please plan to attend one of these performance to enjoy the literature and to support the efforts of these students. Thank you.

Pine Family Night

The address for Pine school is:
1594 N 500 E
Michigan City, IN 46360

The phone number is (219) 873-2114

Please be at the school at 5:15 p.m.

We have been asked to park in the back by the big playground and gym.
Peggy Thomas will meet you at the back doors.

Summer Internship Position

ALLWays Learning Child Development Center has an internship opportunity for this summer. ALLWays Learning is working on the NAEYC accreditation self-study. The self-study prepares us for applying for accreditation. If you are interested, please contact:

Shannon R. Spratley, ALLWays Learning Director
ALLWays Learning Child Development Center
750 Ransom Road
Valparaiso, IN 46385
Phone (219) 46C-HILD Fax (219) 462-0867
sspratley@valpoymca.org

Pine Family Event

Remember to dress in your best blue jeans (no holes) and a shirt/top/blouse in red/white/and or/blue.

The address for Pine School is:
1594 N 500 E
Michigan City, IN 46360-9524

We will need to be at the school at 5:15 p.m. to set up. The event will be from 6:00-7:00 p.m. We will be responsible for staying after the event to tear down and clean up.

Hats off to Reading Committees

The following committees have been created to conduct the Hats off to Reading event. Please post any work your committee has done, is doing etc. This will help us all stay informed of all the tasks and to make sure we are keeping the event organized. Feel free to ask any questions of committees.

Committee Organizer: Lauren Armstrong KDP Vice President of Reading

Publicity - Create flyers to distribute to schools. Tracy Wylie and Ashley Watson

Management - Decide on the way to keep track of centers/who will be facilitating centers/dress code. Samantha Ellis and Julie Heise.

Enhancing the Environment (wall decorations) - Remember these walls are huge and white: Kelley Gertner, Karianne Lopez, Maria Yovino, and Charlotte Joseph.

Center Labels: Amanda Press

Enhancing the Environement (tables): Ryan Anderson, Graham Smith, and Melanie Eng

Welcome - Directional signs posted in the library, door decorations, welcome table decoration: Christy Kelver and Ashley Bernardi

Sign in/Sign out - Create nametags for children, create certificates of participation for children to handout when leaving: Christa Robertson, Meg DeWell and Brynn Wozniak

Contact - contact our Lincoln impersonator, set up time, and what his responsibilites will be. The Lincoln impersonator is Chuck Vandersteldt cvande00@pnc.edu: Kim Cates

Photographer - requires a digital camera. Photograph the days events and put into a powerpoint presentation. - Becky Kohler

Feedback form for Family Night

I know a few weeks ago we were discussing a feedback form for the Family Lit Night. It was my group's understanding that each group was to make a feedback form and then we were going to go through them in class and create one feedback form to be filled out by the participants of family night. Is this still going to be done? Should we send our completed feedback forms to someone so that copies can be made for everyone to look at on Monday? Just wondering how this was going to work.

Hats off to Reading

Amanda had a good idea that a few of us were running with. We thought that if anyone could get us a piece of plywood that was cut to about 5 feet Charlotte, Amanda, and myself could draw and paint Abe Lincoln on it and cut out the face. It would be something that the kids could put their face in and take a picture or do it just for fun. It would be a cool way to remember their day. So the question is does anyone have a 5 ft. piece of plywood laying around that we could use?

Listen to the Wind

I just purchased the youth version of Three Cups of Tea and the picture book Listen to the Wind. They are great resources for those of you who want to introduce your future students to the idea of being a humanitarian. They have all three versions (adult, youth, and picture book) avaliable at Barnes and Noble.