Our Edu 100 class took our last field trip to Gearity Elementary as our final placement. Overall, the school seemed fun! there were a lot of activities going on and a lot of intriguing learning. I sat in on Mrs. Bishko's fourth grade language arts class with three of my classmates. I was excited because I did all of my field experience in a fourth grade classroom at Gesu. When we walked in, she was very welcoming, she shook our hands and introduced herself. Her classroom was very creative because she had a lot of fun and academic posters. When we arrived, they were in homeroom. The homeroom class had thirteen students and they all had iPads, along with all the other kids in other classes. At about 9:15, the kids switched for the first class, language arts. In the first language arts class, 1A, there were only ten students, which surprised me. The class split into two different groups. The first group went with Mrs. Bishko and talked about "I can" statements, kind of similar to what Mrs. Nemeth had, and they also drew conclusions from text they read. Before we arrived, we had to formulate another question, and mine was how does the teacher offer equal opportunities? She answered that for me by calling on every student at her table and giving equal chances for kids to answer. The kids cut out their conclusions and glued them on a piece of paper and put facts underneath them. Mrs. Bishko has a lot of fun with her students, while still maintaining their attentiveness, and that is a very admirable trait in a teacher. In the other group, they went with another teacher who seemed to be an aid. They talked about why writers write stories and the purposes for writing. She gave the kids a chart and had them write down ideas that they could formulate a short story out of. She called it their "bank of ideas." She also said something that seems critical to what we have been learning this year. She said, "it's okay to use your imagination and be creative."
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