Najla+Sabrah



My name is Najla Sabrah and I am a senior at Clemson University. This is my fourth year at Clemson after transferring from the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth. I was previously a psychology major before changing to Elementary Education. I studied abroad in Australia and had an amazing time. I have been fortunate enough to travel to New Zealand, Brazil, Canada, and different parts of Europe and plan on sharing these experiences in my classroom. I feel as though I have become more cultured and open to new experiences after traveling. I am certainly not as technology savoy as I would like to be but I will get there soon. I have the basic skills down but there are still so many more that I would liek to learn. I feel as though there is so much more that I could learn in order to enhance learning for my students. I am currently placed in Mrs. Cothran's fourth grade classroom at Crosswell Elementary School in Easley, SC. There is a Promeathean Board in each classroom. Mrs. Cothran uses her smartboard everyday when facilitating lessons. The students are allowed to interact with the board while completing different lessons throughout the day. I do not know much about the board other than the basics. I would love to learn how to create different lessons that will be effective and fun.

I thought Edutopia was a very valuable site. It has many resources that can be extremely helpful to teachers. I especially liked the blog and project based learning sections because it has firsthand experiences/perspectives. I also like how it has each section broken down. It makes it easier to follow and navigate.

The website http://jmathpage.com has many interactive activities that can be used in our classroom. I am in an ELA and Read class so I do not get to see very many math lessons. This site has a variety of games that students can play. There is also a range in the grade level so many elementary teachers can use this site as well. There are counting activities, addition and subtraction, division, place value and decimals, integers, probability, operations and functions, and much more. Along with games, there are puzzles, worksheets, parents and teacher information, and others. I could use this website to introduce a lesson and see what my students already understand, use it during a lesson to make it interactive, or as a review to see what they learned. I will be in either a second or third grade class next semester and I think this website will be helpful when I create a math lesson.
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**1. Science Reflection:** I thought the presentation by the guest speakers was great. They were excited about science and sharing their experiences with us. I am skeptical about teaching science because I am not very confident with the content, but seeing presentations like this makes me feel better about it. In our science methods class, we are always learning ways to make science more hands on and concrete. So these presentations went right along with our learning. I also liked the other stations as well. I remember doing the owl pellet experiments when I was younger, which was a great way to learn about animals and other characteristics. I like how the digital microscope was added to the experiments so students could look at, video and take pictures of what they were doing. The other station with the sensors was also very fun and informative.

**2. Websites:** [] **Science** Chem4Kids is a website that can be very helpful to teachers and students because there are lots of important terms, definitions, and information within different science topics and categories. Each topic has different items that go along with it. This is nice because it breaks the information down and gives more information and tools for the subjects. Within the site, I liked a math page that was added. The subjects covered are astronomy, biology, chemistry, earth science, and physics. Overall, I did like this site and would use it gather information because it is not very interactive. []

PBSKids is a great site that has so many tools for both students and teachers to use. It is very interactive which helps students learn the information in ways other than the textbook. There are games, pintables, recipes, experiments, crafts, plays, and many more. Within the experiments there are instructions, materials needed, outcomes and comments from other people that have tried it. @http://www.funbrain.com/words.html
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**English Language Arts** Funbrain is a good site for teaching language arts. The activities can be done as a class, individually, or in groups. It puts terms in sentences that help students relate and make connections to the context. The activities are broken down into ability levels, which is great because a classroom has a variety of academic levels.