In this class students are involved in a year long rodeo theme. jenn has 4 startions set up for students to rotate through, brain challenges, sumdog on the computer, games and teaching table/paperwork. For the brain challenges students work together on the white boards. Working big and with a dry erase is easy for the teacher to glance and see that they are on tadk and also gives the students the security of easily erasing mistakes. The rodeo game was engaging and helped develop the oral language of tenths, 100ths and 1000ths.
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Grade six students move through various stations centering around probability. Most were truly engaged in the task cards that came with a probability kit at the resource center. Another delightful morning watching students engaged in 'race to a flat' place value games, addition bump using 3 di, interactive notebooks for regrouping and fact families. Karen worked with each group in a different way. In a short 45 min period she was able to work with 3 groups and kept everyone motivated by the short activity time. Thanks for sharing Karen. What an amazing morning of sharing in Kirsten's french immersion kindergarten. Everything was so well organized that the students corrected the teacher because she hadn't changed the day plan. Kirsten showed them the map of which group goes where and they immediately got their supplies and started playing. They played for 10-15 minutes and then she led them in a game on the carpet, everyone played ( the dominoes for the game were stored in kleenex boxes) Then after a 5 minute game they went to a second rotation of games. The most amazing thing was the set up and clean up, so efficient. The pattern center was very Reggio Emillio inspired with gems, wooden cylinders of different colours and boiled bones! Thank you for sharing Kirsten. A few of us got to observe Kelsey teach guided math in her 5/6 class at Marie Sharpe. Kelsey does three rotations every day so she sees all her students in their small group. The rotation is consistent and because of her lower numbers and absences she usually has 5-6 at the table. This works well for her needy group. We really watched for what to do with the students who are not engaged in the paper work or the game. We decided that the most important part for these students is the time at the table with the teacher and that a hands on follow up activity would be the best for them. Thank you for sharing Kelsey!
Two teachers who job share demonstrated in their grade 4/5 class today. It was nice to see both teachers demonstrate at the table, similar yet different lessons. The group of teachers watching were extremely impressed with the students understanding of each different task. One groups played the real estate game, creating arrays from rolls of the dice, another group was working n addition facts power of 8 and 9, another did a group problem and finally paper work. At the teaching table both groups had had a weak understanding of arrays and with a quick little guided lesson everyone was able to set off and do the paper work to show what they know. Thank you Melissa and Lacey for such a well planned sharing! 6 of us observed two teachers in a grade 3 class today. Melissa and Jenn job share and keep each other very well informed so that students consistently have a routine for literacy and math. They make notes during each time at the table so that the other teacher knows what has been covered. Both teachers get to see all groups during the week. Their lessons are about 20 min long which helps keep behavior down and students are on task. We had a large collection of teachers gather and watch Amy Simcox in her grade 7 class at 100 Mile elementary. It was great to see how she use the same style of rotations as the daily 5. Students were in fairly large groups and the games were in the back room called the 'library' which helped for volume. Amy is finding many ways to engage her busy grade 7 class and the teachers observing had a few suggestions for class management. See pictures below 7 teachers gathered to watch an engaging lesson at PSO in Ms. Lori Meville's grade 12 class. Students had several sets of data and they had to collaborate and find out what types of graphs they would make without using their graphing calculators. I am adding a slide show in the high school tab section. Thank you Lori for sharing your class.
I had the opportunity to observe in two new teachers classrooms and they have shared some good ideas. One is a planning document that helps you organize each day. I have put it in the documents section for easy download its called 'mathrotationsplanning' thank you Amy. The other document is a graph from Melissa and Jenn. They have added to the back for students to create a pie graph ( the number of pie pieces correlates to the # of students) and compare. I placed the image of this in the graph section. ( Just got the originals to share, they are in the documents section now called; weekly_graph_observationspietally.docx and weekly graph portrait .
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