Class+Four+-+Sept+20

__**Class Agenda Preparing for your Field Placement: **__

1. Beginning field placement NEXT WEEK - first session is an observation, second session is planting in their garden bed. So, we will focus on preparing your lesson plan for this first lesson with your students!

2. Reports from Jigsaw groups from readings about school gardens and gardening practices.

3. Completing activities/downloading resources from the Foss Science Kits under the page "Preparing for Field Placements"

4. I apologize but we will NOT be pursuing the presentations that had been originally scheduled for next Monday so we can focus all attention on prepping for your first weeks of field placement.

5. Updated Class Schedule

__**Assignments for Sept. 27 **__

1. Read Chapters 3-5 in our Abruscato text. You will be completing question #2 for Chapter 4 on p 74 - you will be writing your first lesson plan for introducing the children to the garden bed and planting the greens - spinach, bak choy, and green mix.

On our fieldtrip on Wednesday, Carla will be teaching you about the plants we've started - spinach, bak choy, and mixed greens - and how to plant the seedlings we've grown with your students next week. I'll be urging you to begin thinking about how to manage the planting with 15 children. We'll talk more about this as we work on Wednesday and review your first draft of your lesson plan in class next Monday.

2. You will also be reading from Chapter 13 - Living Things and Chapter 15 - Life Sciences Lesson Ideas. I'll direct you particularly to activities and ideas that you might implement in your field placement classroom:

p. 300, 302, 305, 310, and the sample Lesson plan on pp. 330-333.



3. Read Chapter 4 on our **//Schoolyard-Enhanced Learning: Using the Outdoors as an Instructional Tool//**