This week was a little crazy because students were excited for the Melrose Carnival, which was on Friday. However, we did manage to get a lot accomplished during the week.
I taught a lesson with the number grids and we analyzed the grid to see what patterns we could find (moving left to right was either adding or subtracting by ones, but moving up or down was either adding or subtracting by tens). I then had them write answers to addition or subtraction problems on white boards as I said them out loud. The problems were either adding or subtracting some multiple of ten, and as they got better they had to think of the answers in their head without looking at their number grid. This caused some issues, but overall it went well.
In Social Studies we started “visiting” Australia and the students were excited to learn how different objects were called different names in Australia (a friend is called “mate”, and cookie is called “biscuit”). We had issues with one student in particular showing high levels of aggression; he tried stabbing me with a pencil, tried hitting Angela, and he threw pencils at the girl who sits across from him. He was sent down to the principal’s office after class, but it made me think because it we were able to keep the class under control but there were four teachers there, I can’t imagine trying to handle it alone! It makes me think that I still have a lot to learn when it comes to classroom management…
vpeterman09 said,
April 18, 2008 at 3:19 am
I love how you put the examples of your lessons on the blogs! The lesson sounded great and it seems like it would help the students. That is CRAZY about your student and that is odd to think about 4 teachers not being able to “handle” it when there should only be 1 teacher. Sometimes though, you just have to “roll with it” within the classroom setting and I’m sure it’ll become easier and less intimidating as we move on through our field experiences. Hope your last week was great!