Presentation Day #2

The presentations on day 2 (October 17th) were on the books, "Wondrous Words" and "Ladybugs, Tornadoes and Swirling Galaxies. The first group, "Wondrous Words" incorporated poetry into their activity and I really enjoyed it! At first they had each of us pick a line from the Rodriguez article that we read at the beginning of the semester. Once we had our line we had to read it over and over in our head to figure out how we would be saying it out loud. Then the group presenting split the class into groups and we put all of our lines together in a poem of our own. I liked how they emphasized that poetry can really be anything, it doesn’t have to rhyme and we had a lot of fun with it.

The second group was the Ladybug group. I really liked their ignite talk and thought they really enjoyed the book they read. I also thought they enjoyed telling us about it. For the activity we used sticky notes to give feedback on what we thought the books in front of the class would be about. I have done something like the sticky notes before in a science class I am currently in, but this gave it a new twist. I enjoyed the presentations and I could see myself doing both of these activities in my future classroom.