I implemented a way to motivate Jose, (and all the other students in the class), to do his math minute! For the past two weeks, Jose has done every single math minute – 10 total. My motivator is a prize drawing that students can enter their name into if they do the math minute every day for a week. The math minutes [...]
There are exactly 3 students in my 6th grade math class who “get” long division…. let alone long division with decimals! I have spent 2 extra days doing long division, and they arn’t getting it! My lead teacher says we have to move on, and we can’t teach to a mastery level. So, do the [...]
On Wednesday, I pulled 4 students aside to do an IRI with me. I started out doing the word lists with them, and I was amazed at how far they got, and how good they did!! On Thursday, I had the same 4 students do the reading/comprehension part of the same IRI, and they did terribly! — [...]
So, here are some of my rough ideas for my action research. My focus is mostly on individual students in my math class. Most of the students in the math class are from other home rooms and the “feel” of the students/classroom is just so odd compared to the rest of the day. The students in this [...]
During many mini-lessons, bring in an object and let students feel it, smell it, and taste it if it is food, and listen to it, if it’s living. Then ask them to describe its attributes. Write the children’s suggestions on chart paper. Encourage them to describe even more (i.e. how soft is it? As soft [...]
Mad doesn’t have to be yelling like a banshee. Mad doesn’t have to be kicking like an ostrich. Mad doesn’t have to be smoldering or red-hot like flames in your gut. Mad doesn’t have to be permanent. Mad doesn’t have to be forever like a boring old seminar. By Ben
ENG MR. SAITZ SENTENCES EXERCISE 1 Each of the following groups of words consists of a noun and a verb. Make each pair of words into a sentence of at least EIGHT words by adding information to the noun and the verb. Punctuate each of your sentences correctly. 1. man drove 2. children walked 3. [...]
Lesson #1: Beginning Sentences in Different Way Materials: • a copy of Whales Passing • overhead transparency of “Key Qualities of the Sentence Fluency Trait” (page 5) • “Different Beginnings” printable (page 6) • overhead transparency of “Think About: Beginning Sentences in Different Ways” (page 7) • paper, pencils, pens, markers, crayons What to Do: [...]
On September 22nd and 24th I attended an “AIMSweb” training at Jefferson Middle School in the library after school from 3:30 to 4:30 pm. The training was given by Stephanie Carpenter, and the purpose of the training was to introduce and familiarize teachers to the computer program used to track RTI. Jefferson Middle School (JMS) uses [...]
At the beginning of the school year, I would constently be worried about how I would instruct 36 6th graders to the back of the room for a glue stick or a ruler….. hell did break loose a few times before Mrs. Harris put different colored smiley face stickers on desks….. YES!! So now when [...]
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