**Week 11**

This week we spent a great deal of the time working on our group project for children’s literature. Although we have no gotten a chance to present out lesson yet, so far it has been a really great experience. Finding the actual book was not difficult because a few people in our group had picked out some extra books when they were looking for their individual book. One person in our group had a very good book about the social skill of friendship, so we decided to go with that book. Deciding the book and coming up with the lesson was actually fairly easy because we had so many people collaborate and work together to get everything we needed accomplished. The biggest challenge that we found did not actually have that much to do with the lesson part of it, but simply finding time for the group to get together because it was such a large group and everyone’s schedules were so different. Putting all of our ideas together and coming up with something great was the most exciting part. We all had very different ideas, but they came together great and I feel we really did a good job because of it.
This is a really great experience and children in the classroom can benefit from something like this for many reasons. Although students may not be getting in groups to do lesson plans, working in a group overall can have a great deal of benefits. It really helps a lot with their social skills, and it helps with creativity because they can hear ideas that they hadn’t really thought of which will help them expand their ideas. They would really benefit from a similar experience.