1st Grade Lesson

We've started a new lesson in 1st grade! This is the second and final lesson my UA intern, Miss Laura Robinson, has taken the lead on planning and teaching. The topic is feelings and coping skills. Miss Robinson will tell students that feelings are like a roller coaster: everyone feels sad or upset sometimes, like the dips in the roller coaster, but the track will always head back up toward happiness eventually. In other words, no one's blues last forever! Miss Robinson will read the book How Are You Peeling?, which I love because all the illustrations are photographs of real fruits and vegetables, with only tiny black-eyed peas added for eyes. The rest of the "facial expression" is the natural shape of the fruit or simple carved shapes. The students will then draw and write about feelings they have and how they handle them on a sheet with Mr. Potatohead shapes to be decorated with facial expressions (see pictures below). Mr. and Mrs. Potatohead have even made surprise appearances in some classrooms! If you have any questions about the lesson, please let me know. So far we've seen Durrett, Dockery, Tingle, and Patterson's classes. We will see the other first graders tomorrow and next week.