Natalie shared her French Immersion class with us for guided math. She was very well organised and had trained the kids to know what to do and were to go. They were very excited to share with us. Below are a few photos of her using the open number line at the table. I have added more information and a video in the 'Teaching at the table ' tab under student procedures.
There are so many teachers at 100 Mile Elementary that we have to do two groups. In the morning the primary teachers observed Cindy Craig and in the Afternoon we observed Carolyn Cushing. We were quite amazed by the organization in Cindy's grade 2 classroom. She has t-charts of expectations, colour coded Yahtzee boards that match the colour of the dice. She worked at the table and helped students catch each others mistakes. At the ipad station students worked on addition facts and used graph paper to work on number printing and reversals. Students and the observing teachers were engaged and motivated. The lesson at the carpet was on a monster squeeze, students had to guess the mystery number and narrow the choices between high and low numbers. Students loved this game.
In the afternoon we watched Carolyn in her 3/4 class. One particular idea that we liked was that she had an activity at her teaching table for the kids to do while she ensured all other students knew what they were doing at their stations. The other students were doing symmetry paperwork and activities on geoboards. Carolyn's work at the table was full of discovery and allowing students to notice their own mistakes, checking them with each other. |
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