Fieldwork Intro

Today we went into our classroom and met the students we will be working with this semester! This is always an exciting day for not only the students but the teachers.  We get to interact with the students and learn a little bit about the environment we will be teaching in.  For my groups' ice breaker, we did a roll the dice activity.  Students were to roll a dice and which ever number they rolled, they had to answer the question that was that number.  The first roll the dice worksheet consisted of questions regarding their personal life including how old are you, what's your favorite color, do you have any pets, etc.  We started with this worksheet.  Once everyone answered these questions, we started on sheet two.  Sheet two consisted of more detailed personal questions like if you won the lottery what would you do, if you could go anywhere in the world where would you go, and if you could have any super power what would it be?  The students really loved this and we learned a lot about them!  We were able to use the knowledge of their interests we gained from this activity and apply it to our lesson.  After we finished these, we moved onto the roll the dice activity regarding our lesson topic.  The worksheet consisted of questions like have you ever been to the bank, if so what did you think, do you save money, etc.?  This gave us a good base to work with while designing our lesson as well.  We were able to get a feel for their knowledge regarding the role of the bank.  This intro helped us while designing our lesson and helped us get to know our students!