Time to meet the students !

It's that time again, time to meet the students that we will be working with for the next five weeks of the semester! It's always exciting when you first walk into a classroom full of children, you get the opportunity to meet each student and learn a little bit about them and they get to learn a little bit about you before you begin your journey with them. Each group comes up with a getting to know you activity and we take turns rotating from table to table to learn a little bit about each individual in the class. My group decided on having the children create a poster on what they think the middle ages looked like.  We watched as students created their posters with drawings of castles and horses, along with knights and towns. Each student told us what they drew and why they drew it. We also played two truths and a lie with the students so that we were able to learn a little bit about each of them along with them learning a little bit about each of us. This activity gave students the opportunity to be creative and use their imagination when it came to drawing the middle ages and what they think it looked like back then. This was a quick fun and easy way to break the ice with meeting new students and have them actively engaged with an activity from day one. We were able to learn what the students may already know about the middle ages and something they want to learn about the middle ages, so it made it a little easier to plan our lesson and incorporate information. This was a fun and easy way of getting to know each student in the class! It was a great way to start fieldwork.