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Sped 235-Lesson Reflection
Sped 235-Lesson Reflection
Sped 235-Lesson Reflection
Lesson Reflection
I love doing hands on activities with my students. Being able to carve a pumpkin and
discuss what we thought might be inside are things that I love to do. I also think that there needs
to be more hands-on activities in school, having a small class I am better able to prepare for
hands on activities. Overall the lesson went very well, the students were engaged and seemed to
enjoy the content. They enjoyed making guesses about what the pumpkin would look and feel
like, and they also liked touching the pumpkin to see if their guesses were right.
If I were to do this lesson again, I would change a couple of things. I would make this at
the end of a small unit on pumpkins. Even though my students are in 4th-6th grades they could
still learn about the life cycle of a pumpkin and how plants grow. I would add in the pumpkin life
cycle to help them to understand where a pumpkin comes from and how it grows, so when we
talk about the inside of the pumpkin, they might know what it looks like. Having this foundation
Another thing that I should have went over a little more is the vocabulary that they were
using to describe the pumpkin. It could have also been a language lesson teaching about verbs,
adverbs, using describing words, and the senses. The students used some great words to describe
the pumpkin both on the outside and the inside, they may have done better with a language
lesson before. Writing the words on the chart paper with their guesses and then going back and
writing the new words and crossing out the things that were not true was a good visual for the
Lastly, I would also try to incorporate math some more. I had the estimation in my lesson
plan as an extra incase we have time, and we did. We counted by 10’s, but I should have circled
the piles of 10’s and wrote the numbers as we were counting them to make the knowledge a little
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more concrete. Also adding in carving the pumpkin and having the students pick out the shapes
that we carve. They might not have known that they were doing math because it would have
I really liked this lesson; it was the first time I have done this lesson with a class. I will do
it again in the future, and probably make it the end to a pumpkin unit.