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! |
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