lesson reflection

The lesson when as well as could be expected.  My students had never done anything like this before  and because of their age, I can tell you now that I should have done a lot more with them to prepare them.  On the other hand, maybe my students did okay and because I haven't done anything like this, I didn't know what to expect.  I decided to use three nature pictures from the internet,  a sand desert scene, a tropical forest and a river running through, and grassland wild flowers all over a hillside. Most of the kids couldn't pick which one they like best.  They did a lot of talking about the pictures but most of it was what they could do in those places like ride a four wheeler or motorcycle on the dunes, swim in the river or fish, and pick the flowers which is very much what our students do in our rural community. After a few minutes I had to discuss whole group about what the pictures made them think about or feel like and what words would describe those thoughts and feelings.  This brought forth other words of visual descriptions. We make lists for each of the pictures and then students picked from those lists.  If they thought of other words, I would write them on the board. I'm planning on typing them up and printing off each of the pictures and using them as a bulletin board display.