My First Day at Northwood

I went to observe Mrs. Ruff’s third grade class on Friday. I had a great time because Mrs. Ruff was very nice and the students were very welcoming of me. The students were doing a lesson on similarities and differences of animals. When I arrived they were pre-reading a couple of books, that Mrs. Ruff had brought to the class, about different animals that they could read on their own. Mrs. Ruff asked them questions about the title, pictures in the book, and read some of the interesting facts out of the book. Before hand the students had the opportunity of selecting two animals in which they printed information off on them to compare and contrast. Mrs. Ruff demonstrated what she wanted them to do first by giving them an example on the board. The school is starting to use different types of graphic organizers. On this day the class was using a double bubble which is similar to a Venn diagram. The students were doing a very good job with coming up with differences of the animals but had a difficult time trying to find similarities. Some of the choices the students picked even stumped Mrs. Ruff and I. I also had the opportunity to walk around and help some of the students with their assignment.