Just Another Manic Tuesday
Oct. 24th, 2017 06:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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It is hot, y’all. It’s melt into a puddle hot where I work and, for the first time in forever, it’s the same temperature where I live. Usually, it’s about 10 degrees cooler, if not more, where I live. Not today. Same temp in both places. Ugh.
So, above are pictured the books my mom donated to my class. Some she bought, some she dug up in our old collection of books. My kids are awash in new books right now and it’s wonderful. Especially since today the library computers went down all over the district. The librarian had to check out all the books by hand, so the kids were only able to check out one book. They were disappointed, but I reminded them that we have plenty of books in the class. Thank goodness.
In math, we learned how to add two digit numbers using compensation. Basically, you turn the number closest to a multiple of ten into that multiple and compensate by taking away from the other number. So 38 + 15 becomes 40 + 13. The book has pictures of tens blocks and the kids are supposed to circle the ones and move them over, but I could tell they weren’t getting it. So, I pulled out these regrouping mats I got from Sufin’ Through Second Grade a few years ago. Thank goodness I’d already printed and laminated them, because I wasn’t going to use them until Thursday. But I thought it’d be an easier way for them to see the concept.
I don’t know. Some of them got it, but a lot of them… well. They went through the motions, but I don’t know how well they actually understood what we were doing. And there’s just one lesson on the concept. I may go back and do more practice, but when it comes down to it, it’s just one strategy for them to use. If they don’t get it, then it’s not the strategy for them and they just won’t use it. I don’t know if I want to expend a lot of energy going over and over it when it just might not work for them.
The second day of RTI went fairly well. My group is so low that they’re not used to succeeding. I gave them a passage to read. It was kindergarten level on the “a” sound, and two of them just refused to do it. They were supposed to read to their partner while I monitored. Two did it, the other two, nope. So, I went to each one and had them read it to me and they read it perfectly without any prompting. They just needed to see that it was something they could do to get that confidence to do it. I ended up sending it home with them for “homework”. One of the kids read it a few more times to himself and then said, “I think I’m getting the hang of this.” I told him I was very proud.
It is hot, y’all. It’s melt into a puddle hot where I work and, for the first time in forever, it’s the same temperature where I live. Usually, it’s about 10 degrees cooler, if not more, where I live. Not today. Same temp in both places. Ugh.
So, above are pictured the books my mom donated to my class. Some she bought, some she dug up in our old collection of books. My kids are awash in new books right now and it’s wonderful. Especially since today the library computers went down all over the district. The librarian had to check out all the books by hand, so the kids were only able to check out one book. They were disappointed, but I reminded them that we have plenty of books in the class. Thank goodness.
In math, we learned how to add two digit numbers using compensation. Basically, you turn the number closest to a multiple of ten into that multiple and compensate by taking away from the other number. So 38 + 15 becomes 40 + 13. The book has pictures of tens blocks and the kids are supposed to circle the ones and move them over, but I could tell they weren’t getting it. So, I pulled out these regrouping mats I got from Sufin’ Through Second Grade a few years ago. Thank goodness I’d already printed and laminated them, because I wasn’t going to use them until Thursday. But I thought it’d be an easier way for them to see the concept.
I don’t know. Some of them got it, but a lot of them… well. They went through the motions, but I don’t know how well they actually understood what we were doing. And there’s just one lesson on the concept. I may go back and do more practice, but when it comes down to it, it’s just one strategy for them to use. If they don’t get it, then it’s not the strategy for them and they just won’t use it. I don’t know if I want to expend a lot of energy going over and over it when it just might not work for them.
The second day of RTI went fairly well. My group is so low that they’re not used to succeeding. I gave them a passage to read. It was kindergarten level on the “a” sound, and two of them just refused to do it. They were supposed to read to their partner while I monitored. Two did it, the other two, nope. So, I went to each one and had them read it to me and they read it perfectly without any prompting. They just needed to see that it was something they could do to get that confidence to do it. I ended up sending it home with them for “homework”. One of the kids read it a few more times to himself and then said, “I think I’m getting the hang of this.” I told him I was very proud.
