Friday, November 14, 2008

Learning Centers at Berea Community

Tossing the Bean Bag


In this picture, I am kneeling looking at the words that were on the floor. The girl on the right holds a card that she obtained after throwing the bean bag to the floor. The task of the activity is that each student takes turns tossing bean bags to the floor, picking up the flashcard where the bean bag landed and saying the word aloud. The woman on the right is a college student observing.
I noticed the creativity of the teacher in making the stations. On one of the stations the kids had to write a sentence with each word that was written at the top of the paper. On another station the teacher read a page of a book that had a picture in each page and the kids had to figure out who was the character. On another station the kids rewrote similar words with similar pronounciations.
I decided that I would write post this blog in the nature of learning because learning centers provide a variety of activities for kids to learn. Some kids are naturally visual learners, which means that they learn better if they read or see the activity. Other kids are auditory learners, which means that they learn better if they listen to what is being taught. Other kids are born kinesthetic learners, which means that they learn better by doing activities with their bodies.
Observing the learning centers at the school helped me to develop as a teacher because it gave me a variety of ideas to create for students to learn.

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