This morning went really quickly. I was prepared to do a new greeting, but my CT asked me to do the nametag greeting where we put their nametags in the middle of the circle and one person at a time picks a nametag and greets that person. We had a lot of shares because two students just came home from vacations in Aruba and Disney World. They both wrote vacation journals. We decided to let them each share a page of their journal every day of the week. We did our morning chart and a quick activity where one person went in the middle, blindfolded, and had to try to guess the object in their hands. It worked pretty well because we had an activity to do with our buddy class – a 4th grade class that they meet with a few times throughout the year. Today we were decorating candy filled bags for March Madness. After the activity, we had about a half hour for Daily 5. I did Words of the Week, and then we were going to choose one round, but we decided to do a mad minute. They are getting better at mad minutes – this was 4 minutes, with 10 subtraction problems, using larger numbers. They are getting harder, which is why we cut it from 30 problems back down to ten.
After lunch, I taught the whole afternoon. We did poetry first. They class was acting a little silly. The poetry and handwriting lessons went smoothly. I started giving some more time outs when they were getting unruly. My CT was glad I did that. For poetry, they pretty much know what to do already, so it was simple to run through. For handwriting, I had students come up and write the words on the Smartboard since we had some time. After handwriting, the making meaning lesson went really quickly. The students got into partners and I read the story to them, stopping at a few points to ask them to talk with their partners about something in the book. It worked well. My CT suggested that I review with them, next time, how they should sit with a partner (EEKK – Elbow, Elbow, Knee, Knee) and do a practice question to remind them how we use whisper voices and then look back up front. Also, the signal is a hand up to tell them to stop talking. I will use these tricks next time.
Math today started out well. My first game for ordinal numbers didn’t work, so I brought up a new one. My CT was glad I had a back-up idea…I was too. While it was loading, I put four markers on the ground and had them put them in order however I said (red is third, blue is forth, black is first, green is second, etc). After the car racing game, we did a few different types of review problems for the math test. They were not paying much attention, so I gave a bunch more time outs to the students who were instigating and had to stop a few times to make sure they were paying attention. My CT advised me to do a mini stretch or something when they start getting antsy like that. I will remember that for next time. We then had them go back to their desks to start the math test. We got through a little over half of it before we ran out of time. I collected all their tests and we will finish it tomorrow after our problem solving lesson.
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