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Class Meetings

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Meditation Time

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Reflection Writing

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Parents can help by preparing students by showing them video of different different olympics event everyday so they get a better understanding of what it is and also parents can come by at the end of the day to see finish product of different activities we students had to create something. Also parents
and teachers can share ideas via web videos on your school’s
website. That way teachers can provide guidance on how
parents can help with activities or lesson plans so then parents
can provide feedback on areas where their child may need
extra help.

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Description to Organize and Prepare the Environment 

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Description to Organize and Prepare the Environment 

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In order to set up the classroom environment, it is important to gain as much information as possible with the subject matter of the Olympics. We would also need to gather sport objects that are in the Olympics like various balls, sports wear, bow, etc. I would set up the environment in group tables, so children will be in groups when they are in the classroom. This way when we are discussing and having small group time, children will be familiar with their groups. The classroom will also have the olympic colors and symbols so they can be familiar with the symbols that are involved in the Olympics and can always refer to their environment when understanding the symbols of the Olympics.

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She Persisted in Sports: American Olympians Who Changed the Game

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My Rotten Redheaded Older Brother

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Fun facts about the summer and winter olympic games

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Unbeatable Betty: Betty Robinson, the First Female Olympic Track & Field Gold Medalist

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Olympig!

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Classroom Assessment Tool and Teaching Self-Reflection 

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Classroom Assessment Tool and Teaching Self-Reflection 

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Twice in the class year, we will use CLASS scoring system and have an observer or another teacher observe our teacher-child interactions in activities. The reasoning behind using this system is to not only assess our teacher effectiveness in the classroom but the environment of the classroom also providing sufficient enough support to children in their interactions. This process will provide us resources of how to assist in behaviors while maintaining a proper classroom environment that continues the learning process. At the end of the day, we will also ask ourselves self-reflection questions and ask the following:
1. Did the day go according to plan or were there any changes and why?
2. Did the changes help or detract from the goals? Why?
3. What did you learn from the day that you would carry out with you?
4. Were there any difficulties in behaviors, environment, activities or intentional teaching methods that was difficult to direct? Why?
These questions provide a self-reflection bringing the responsibility and insight to self and how we can better create intentional teaching.

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Monday:
What are the olympics? When do the olympics take place?
Who participants in olympics?
What happens in the opening ceremony olympics?

Tuesday:
When where the olympics created? Where did the olympics start at? Why where the olympics created? Why where athletes originally given olive wreaths as a reward?

Wednesday:
What sports are held in the summer olympics? What do the Olympic rings represent? How many sports are in the Summer Olympics? In what Summer Olympic sports do both sexes compete against each other?

Thursday:
What sports are held in the winter olympics? How many sports are in the winter olympics? What is the most popular Winter Olympic event? Which country has the most Winter Olympic medals?

Friday:
What happens in the Olympic closing ceremony? Why is the Greek flag raised at the closing ceremony? What is the meaning of closing ceremony?

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We are utilizing a mixture of authentic assessment and formative assessment to have the children provide feedback in their own learning and the effectiveness of the learning process. We will put these assessments to use in child's assessment by first passing out successful learning traits and have them fill out the questions seen in the document in the beginning of the week. This seeks out the individual goals of the child within themselves and to give the teacher an indication of where the children can improve on. We will pass out the papers and see what successful learning as a whole of the child can be and where the child want's to have those skills.Throughout the week, we will utilize these skills in various activities and through the evaluating of the activities, we will determine if the goals of the individual child were successful or not. At the end of the week, We will pass out a similar worksheet but the questions will say:

Did you try out your goals? What did you do?

If you were not able to try out your goals, what will we try next time?

Did we use our learning strength this week?

These give a follow up to the self-reflection and provide opportunity to learn about what was successful and what we can do better in the next week. We will practice these assessment plans weekly with the children.

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Monday:
1. Children will be able to describe the understanding of what the Olympics are.
2. Children will explore the Olympic games and how people compete and train.
3. Children will pretend to be athletes competing in the sports.
Tuesday:
1. Children will recognize and create parts of Olympic Game history.
2. Children will have the opportunity to recreate shot put catapults independently.
3. Children will explore various cultures and express their own flag symbols.
Wednesday:
1. Children will recognize various summer sports.
2. Through experiencing race tracks, children will observe how motions change.
3. Children will create various brochures of athletes and be able to identify what these athletes did in the Olympics.
Thursday:
1. Children listen to female Athletes who have competed and sequence various Winter athletes timelines of how they persisted.
2. Children will engage in conversation of what sports are in the Winter Olympics.
3. Children will make their own Athletes and after exploring winter and summer sports, identify what they would do in the Olympics.
Friday:
1. Children will demonstrate what they learned through the Olympic week with reflection writing.
2. Children will recognize the meaning of being in the Olympics.
3. Children will recreate their own celebration of trying something in Closing Ceremonies.

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Danielle : Looking for activity ideas relating to the Olympics and that were complex enough for third graders was a difficult task. I first explored pinterest and found similar activity ideas but I modified them into an Olympic theme and made them more challenging for a third grader. I also explored fellow teachers who have blogs and websites that post some activities when they have Olympic topics as well. The activities chosen are something that I believe is developmentally appropriate because they create additional complex knowledge like forces of motion and gravity, that can be easily understood visually and expand their knowledge further.

Ashley: When I was thinking of third grade activities ideas that related to the olympics I found many website that had many different ideas. Some that I used to come up with my activities were first the Fun-A-Day website were it had ideas of fun & meaningful learning activities of the Olympics. Also The Educators' Spin On It website were it provided ideas of learning games and activities of the olympics for third graders. This websites both helped me come up with ideas to basic off my activities off. The activities I had came up with I think are developmentally appropriate because they all  help children learn about interactive and communication skills develop.

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