[Music] today we are at Parc Mike's Elementary School to spend the day with a first grade teacher hi miss Mayhew hi miss penny I'm very happy to be here to meet you today and to meet your class and to spend the day in a first-grade classroom what made you decide to be a teacher what was actually a very interesting story I didn't start out wanting to be a teacher in college I actually majored in family resources and human development and when I graduated I really wasn't sure what I wanted to do but my mom was an education she told me I should substitute so I substituted in the pre-k classroom and I fell in love I said this is why I need to be doing for the rest of my life miss me why did you become a first grade teacher actually when I started teaching first I was in kindergarten and the principal at the time about eight years ago he told me that he wanted me to switch to first grade I was a little reluctant that means scared because I had never taught first grade before but once I started teaching first grade and I got comfortable I really started to enjoy it it's me how you become a teacher I didn't go the regular route most teachers they in college they take elementary education that's what they major in I didn't major in that so when I graduated since I didn't major in that I had to take some tests so I took those tests and I got hired and after I got hired I had to say one more test which is called a professional test what do you do when you first get in the classroom in the morning well thankfully I don't really have to do too much and that's usually because I set up for most of it the day before and so when I come in I like to actually let the kids do most of this classroom setup so when they come into the classroom they put their agendas and folders in the baskets they put their things down they put the chairs down and then I sharpen their pencils and after that they get their morning message book out of their desk and then they write the question that's on the board the morning message question [Music] shall we please help you set up your class of course you can I would love that excellent let's get our day started [Applause] [Music] good morning kids today we're going to go ahead and write our morning message if you look at the board it says and I must communicate in different ways an animal can blink instead of talking who can give me an example of what an animal can do instead of talking Emmanuel Oh an animal can it's excellent Angelina how how I love that answer I'm okay math I like a sheep selecia kanzen can buzz like a bee get out boo Oh like a like an owl okay okay whoo-hoo yes ten point can point like a pig excellent job so I want you to go ahead and write that in your book and on the bottom part we're also learning about verbs today a verb is an action word like run jump and climb so who can help me by reading the physics at the bottom it says add the verb to the sentence so we should read the verb at the bottom that's food Blake on this channel the bird blank on the sand walked on the sin giggles on the sand or shared on the sand what do you think the answer is Shila yeah answer is wha very good I want you to go ahead and write your morning message in your book and I'm going to give you ten minutes and I'm going to start the timer a ten minute timer go ahead and get started [Music] how do you grade your papers well typically I give them a grade of one two or three and the one just means that they completed the prompt and they drew a picture and colored it a to means that is almost complete and the three means that they did not do it correctly hi kids today we're going to go over our spelling cupcake words okay so let's go over the first word what is this right here let's spell the word a mobile before you spell it we're going to clap the word animal let's clap Thor demo [Music] okay and the next word is let's blow kisses - the word so the next word is hmm let's eat the word me and what was the word hey now we're gonna play a spelling game I'm gonna take this away I want to see how well you can spell the words that you just learned about give me a thumbs up if you think you're ready your first word is the word why spell the word wise spell it in the pink area why very good shot everybody look at Charlotte she has a WH why everybody else to do it you're done you're done your next word is some some some and eat okay your next word is animal and the mole you guys are doing an excellent job remembering your cupcake words okay we're going to read a story the story that we're going to read it's called animal talk the main idea is what the story is mostly about you're going to use your book phony you're going to read it whispering and more talk by Jack Wilkins and then when you see the microphone come close to you you're going to eat louder animal talk by Jack Wilkins are we ready [Music] and when you're done just close the book in front of you one wants to tell me what they think the story was mostly about she said the story is mostly about animals and how they wet communicate if the main idea is what the story is mostly about what is the detail a small piece of the story so hope it's me what is one small piece of the story the dump can quack very good today we're going to learn about subtractive when you subtract you take away the answer is the difference can you fit up with me when you subtract you take away the answer is different now I want you to turn to a friend cuz you're gonna teach your friend about subtraction class five five five teach okay go ahead when you subtract you take away the answer is we're going to pick up our learning letters hey you can I ask you what is this learning lighter means Dartmouth penny basically the learning letter it just tells me where they are in subtraction and what I need to teach them so if they were a number one that means they need a lot of help if there are number two that means they're familiar with the term subtraction but they still need some assistance if there are number three on the learning letter that means they can teach their friends about subtraction and lastly if there are number of four they're an expert I can sit down and they can teach myself and the whole school so are you ready to tell me where you are on your learning ladder I want you to just take your clip and put it up to the number and show me what number you are I see some tubes oh I see a one I love seeing ones and twos you know why because that means that I can teach you about subtraction the word problem says there for our big the rest are small how many there are small so let's go ahead and act it out when I point to you I want you to go ahead and get on your knees because you're gonna be one of the big bears can you get on your knees for me big bear big bear okay so it said there are six bears for our big so if for our big and the rest are small who can tell me just by looking at the people who are sitting down how many bears are small selecia two bears are small you just did your own subtraction citizens not what I want you to do Thank You bear I want you to pick up your board and I want you to write the subtraction sentence how many bears are we begin with six don't forget that - fine how many bears were big how many bears got on their knees yet for four go ahead and write your four how many bears were sitting down at the end - and when you're ready let's go ahead and read our subtraction sentence six minus four equals two excellent job yourself a firecracker claps one more time this may you thank you so much for showing us today what a first grade teacher does we had a great time in your class thank you for coming miss penny we really enjoyed you as well it's amazing you [Music]