My pre-internship placement is in a third-grade classroom and I chose to teach a four-part lesson on “Inner Self” in Health. The inner self outcome in the Grade 3 curriculum has always interested me so I was really excited to finally put some of my ideas to use. What I never took into account, however, is just how complex of a topic inner self is, especially when talking to young students. The students definitely struggled with being able to define inner self so as we went through the lessons, I adapted by finding new ways of describing the concept of the inner self.
Name Poems
An activity that I had the students do on this topic was Name Poems. I made an example for them so that they had an idea of what I was expecting from them. I set out clear, step-by-step instructions for the class on the board in case anyone forgot the steps.
- Write name vertically on paper
- Fill in lines about yourself
- Raise your hand to get your work checked
- Trace with black marker/pen
- Draw pictures/decorate
- Hand in
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