Yeah, it's been a while. It turns out that full time days are very tiring! My two days of substituting went very well. The kids were great. My teacher has been out of the room some since then and everything has gone smoothly.
We have a few criers in our class - one's a boy and the other is a girl. Today in class, the girl just broke down crying during our math rotation out of frustration from problem solving. Right now there's also a little crush situation going on, and this afternoon we found a "i like you" note from the girl to the boy on the floor in the classroom. It's a little ridiculous.
The past two weeks or so we've been a little frustrated with math for the lack of developing number sense for these students. They continually confuse place value and value of digits. However, when it comes to comparing and ordering numbers, I must brag that I made up a little chant with hand motions to help them remember greater than and less than - and they do! They can remember that > is greater than and < is less than. Hopefully they won't be fooled by the end of grade test!
This week we're working on a social studies project teaching economics. Students are working in business groups and are developing egg-protecting cases as a commissioned project for Humpty Dumpty. Their egg enclosure must help it resist breaking from a six foot fall. They have a budget of $500 available to them and must pay to rent/buy the materials and capital goods, including design and consulative services from the teacher and me. They did very well with it today. It's so precious to see them so excited and on task at the same time!
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