Immediately after beginning my placement at Cold Spring Harbor, I was assigned to do my first ever supervised lesson. I had to do the lesson on language arts or social studies and so I decided to incorporate both in an interdisciplinary lesson on Community Helpers. First I read the story Tops and Bottoms which many of the students loved how the book was different in appearance, being opened from top to bottom, instead of side to side. Within this lesson I also incorporated the community helpers that came into class while I was there: a real estate developer and Microsoft manager; asking questions such as “How does so and so make our community a happy, healthy, and safe place to be?”
After reading the book, I modeled what I wanted the students to do. And each drew their own community helper and wrote a sentence about how that person contributes to our community…
