Sunday, October 20, 2013
Intern Year- 9/30-10-4
On Thursday I believe I had an extremely affective and engaging lesson with my students! For the past week my classroom has been reading a Magic Tree House book about dinosaurs. My mentor teacher has an awesome book of activities to complete with the students that relate to the book. One activity teaches students about multiplication by using "nest" and "eggs", in other words cups and beans. When I first introduced the lesson to the students they were shocked they were going to learn how to multiple using these materials. One little boy even told me it was impossible! During the lesson I could see how exciting my students were, which as a teacher is one of the best feelings. Once my students got the hang of using the eggs and nests to multiple they continued to ask for more multiplication problems! I left school that day feeling excited and eager to plan similar lessons for my students.
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Think about making an anchor chart for this lesson for your kids to refer to as they continue to work with multiplication. Once you have a lesson that hooks them and engages them, they'll remember the steps better if they've made a chart to keep posted and refer to in the future. The nest and eggs idea will stick with them!
ReplyDeleteLaura made a great suggestion about the anchor chart. You should consider putting this in your plans while you still have a chance.
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