It was cool to see the teachers collaborating and discussing their feelings about content this morning. I liked getting to see how the four essential questions worked with the meeting.
Math Workshop
For the first practice problem, I always try to have students suggest their favorite numbers. After everyone in the group suggested a number, the students used dice to create the problems. If a student ended up with 1 as the divisor, I allowed them to solve the problem under the understanding that they had to use the same problem with a different divisor when they were finished. I need to find a way to challenge my advanced group. To give the advanced students more confidence, I had them divide a long number with a decimal by 1, showing that they should not be worried if the numbers suddenly get longer.
Cause and Effect
My host teacher continued my lesson today. I loved the book that she chose. I also loved that she had the children use post-it notes to write cause and effect examples from the books that they are reading. The students got to post the notes onto the anchor chart that we made during my first day of this unit. I feel like the students have a great handle on this topic. Tomorrow I am going to reinforce the fact that nonfiction books also have cause and effect relationships.
Restroom Break
Today, I had the class during the restroom break. Most of the class was pulled out for interventions, but I still complimented the class on being so quiet. I teased one of the boys because he has been sassy in a funny way lately. As I was walking down the line, another boy towards the front suddenly decided to be loud. I was thinking about how I had to stop him, so I decided to say his name then "shhh!" without thinking. The whole class thought it was funny! I finally calmed them down, but when we got to the room, I heard like 5 of the children telling my host teacher, who was also laughing about it. I am glad that this class is so loving and has such a great sense of humor.
Science IMPACT Lesson #2
Today was probably the best lesson that I have taught this semester. I wish that I would have recorded it. My hook was pretty good and so was the engagement. I loved how excited the students got during my demonstrations about conductors versus insulators, they actually oohed and awed. My science lessons have been ending more quickly than I have anticipated. I get nervous about taking too long and the students catch on to the content fairly quickly. Tomorrow, I will play games and sing songs.
Card Trick
Two of my students blew my mind today! During recess, one student asked me if she could do a magic trick on me today. I agreed. She told me to choose a card, so I did. She drew 2 cards, neither one was my card. She had me put my hand on the cards, then she waved another card over my hand and said, "whoo whoo." She asked me to make sure that my card wasn't under my hand and it was! I got excited and told another student to let her do the trick on them, and the other student told me that she had taught the trick to the girl.
ISTEP+
I feel better now that I have attended the ISTEP+ training. I like how they are breaking up the tests and that Community in Schools is supplying snacks for the children. I am glad that my students are taking the paper version, because it will make it easier for my students to input their answers for the math portion. I like that Indiana is considering getting rid of ISTEP+ because it had gotten out of control, but I wonder what will replace it.
Resources
My teacher discussed some excellent resources with me today, I am excited to use them. I learned how to update the class website.
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