Today, I began teaching Math fulltime. I was really excited because I had been nervous up to this point about math because it was NEVER my best subject! I was excited, however, because I waited until we began the third unit, which is geometry. Geometry is something that I was always semi-good at anyway, but I thought that it was fun, which helped me out along the way.
Today, in order to introduce the unit, I put together an "I have... who has..." game for the students to play pertaining to geometry. As went went along, I drew examples of the clues asking "who has..." on the board in order to refresh some students' memories. This seemed to work really well. Some of the students still had problems listening and participating throughout the class, but they all claimed that it was really fun!
Although we didn't get finished with our game today, I believe that I might finish the game tomorrow reading the clues myself and drawing pictures to finish off the introduction. I believe that I might find a trade book to read to the students to open the math class... we'll see!
Today, I began teaching Math fulltime. I was really excited because I had been nervous up to this point about math because it was NEVER my best subject! I was excited, however, because I waited until we began the third unit, which is geometry. Geometry is something that I was always semi-good at anyway, but I thought that it was fun, which helped me out along the way.
ReplyDeleteToday, in order to introduce the unit, I put together an "I have... who has..." game for the students to play pertaining to geometry. As went went along, I drew examples of the clues asking "who has..." on the board in order to refresh some students' memories. This seemed to work really well. Some of the students still had problems listening and participating throughout the class, but they all claimed that it was really fun!
Although we didn't get finished with our game today, I believe that I might finish the game tomorrow reading the clues myself and drawing pictures to finish off the introduction. I believe that I might find a trade book to read to the students to open the math class... we'll see!
-ME
On the trade book--think about talking to Bethany since this is the focus of her action research.
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