Lesson Plan 5 Reflection

I feel like I have finally got my student engaged in our lesson plan! 😊 This makes me happy because I was getting the feeling I was boring her and not engaged her mind in our lesson plan and during our time together. In the past I have expressed concern about not finding activities that engaged my student enough or challenged her enough. What I discovered is my student is very "book" smart. What challenges my student is thinking outside of just the fundamentals or creating her own work. For example, during the story we read together today I tried to ask her questions that got her creative juices flowing. This makes me excited for our next lesson plan together where she has to come up with and write her own story. My student was able to quickly answer questions that had a specific answer such as what happened in the beginning or the ending of the story. We played a game that required her to change the end of the story The True Story of the Three Little Pigs. This stumped her, which made me happy! I could tell she really needed to dig deep and use her higher order thinking skills to answer this question because there was no clear right or wrong answer. As a bonus, she also got excited about her alternate ending! This makes me very excited for our next lesson plan together because she gets the opportunity to create her own story herself. I wish I would have discovered this information sooner but I'm just happy I finally did!