Reflection 1: Activities in the Classroom

Today in class it really astonished me to play the story as one game. I really wasn't expecting to follow along as someone else was telling a story, and then to be picked and totally blank out what to say! It was a really good experince though, and I think it would be fun to use in the classroom, I definitely tried teaching it to my friends afterwards! The next game we played was the A-Z sentence game, where everyone adds their own unique sentence to the story starting with a given letter. I got to say this game was really hard. My letter was C and I had a horrible time coming with a start to the sentence, I kept on wanting to say Come, but that sounded wrong so finally I went with a name. :)

One of the things that really hit me was how important it was to make sure that creativity was a part of the every day classroom. With time being as restricted as it is making sure that there is some part of creative arts in every lesson goes a long way to not only help the students learn whatever subject it is, but also allow them to flurish in a system that sometimes does the opposite of what its supposed to. I am really looking forward to the rest of the class :)