This week I am thinking about all of the things I love! Next week it will be two years since I started this blog and I have to say I love blogging! I love talking about what is happening in the classroom and the research I am reading. I love connecting with wonderful teachers all over the country and I love all the things I have learned on this journey. Today I am taking a few minutes to say thanks to all my followers and everyone who has been with me on this wild ride. I am linking up with some of my newest blogger friends to bring you the I {Heart} My Followers Mega Giveaway! I will be giving away 2 different prize packs containing some of my favorite things and then you can click on the links at the bottom of this post to check out more great giveaways.
Teaching With Music
I absolutely love teaching with music and some of the most read posts on my blog are from my Teaching Math with You Tube videos series. I have been using music in my teaching for years but You Tube has really stepped it up to the next level. Recently, I found Jack Hartmann's You Tube channel and added a few more to my repertoire. Here are a few of my new favorites
Numbercise
I have had the Every 1 Counts CD that this song came from for a few years but seeing it as a video really helped my students get the song!
Lets Get Fit Count to 100
A really fun way to get a movement break and counting practice together. Makes a great transition!
The Coin Song
My students' new favorite song for coin value and recognition!
These are my favorite math videos but there are also some great videos for teaching literacy concepts over on Jack Hartmann's You Tube channel.
Using Card Games for Classroom Instruction and Intervention
I love card games! I have created several decks of cards over the past 3 years and now I use these cards over and over again to play all kinds of games with kids. About 80% of my intervention time with students is spent using one of these decks of cards to play a huge variety of games. The best part is how much time, money and paper I save by using the same materials over and over again.
These 4 decks of cards help me take games and make them fun and engaging interventions that include visual models to support students who are still developing a conceptual understanding.
QR Code Scavenger Hunts
If I had not started blogging, I am not sure I ever would have thought about using QR codes with students. My QR code scavenger hunts have taken routine (and rather boring) practice and made it engaging, active and fun. If you haven't tried QR code scavenger hunts, read more about them here.
Now it is time to show how much I {heart} my followers! I will be giving away some of these things I love the most! I have put together 2 prize packs. One is best from primary teachers and the other for upper elementary. If you teach many grades or work with younger and older students feel free to register for both giveaways!
Primary Prize Pack
Digital files including 4 of my most popular decks of cards with activity sets. You get the 10 frame cards, 20 frame cards, numbers to 120 place value deck and the numbers to 1000 place value deck. Each deck includes a variety of activities to meet the needs of your students.
Welcome to the final week of our Minds on Mathematics book study. If you missed them you can go back and read Understanding Takes Time , Shallow Versus Deep Math , Starting Class and Mini Lessons & Work Time . This week are going to take a deeper look at ending class with sharing and reflecting when using a math workshop model. Sharing Perhaps the most important part of a math workshop model is the time for students to share. It is so important to stop work time before the end of your math class period and give kids a chance to share. This is the part that helps to solidify their comprehension and gives them a chance to practice metacognition which is thinking about their own thinking. They get a chance to synthesize their understanding, check on their progress and make goals for the next day. Teachers can gather important formative assessment data about what strategies kids are using and where to go ne...
Welcome to our second week of looking closely at math workshop. Get more details about my math workshop book study here . Deep Versus Shallow Math In this week's reading, I was struck by the difference between deep and shallow math. Here are some characteristics of each type of math. Shallow Math - Memorizing algorithms - Applying an algorithm (usually a word problem found on the bottom of a page full of practice for that algorithm. - Hunt & copy exercises - Plug and chug numbers - Not considering what the numbers mean - About covering the content - Teacher gives out knowledge Deep Math - Engaging, exciting, exhausting & inspiring - Pushes learners out of their comfort zone - Mental models - An understanding of a concept that can be built upon later - Discourse - Challenging tasks - Students wrestling to make sense - Content understanding - Teacher as a facilitator of learning When I was in elementary and middle school 99% of the math I did would be classified...
Welcome to week 2 of our Mathematical Mindsets book study ! Last week , we looked at the latest in brain research and talked about the importance of mistakes and struggle. Chapter 3: The Creativity and Beauty in Mathematics Big Ideas - Math gets treated differently than other subjects. It is much more of a performance subject than any other. -There is a big gap between real world mathematics and school mathematics - Students (and the public in general) see math as calculations, rules and procedures rather than creative and beautiful. Impact in the Classroom Fibonacci Numbers and the Golden Ratio One of the examples given in this chapter was about taking a look at the Fibonacci numbers and the golden ratio with kids. I have always loved this series of numbers and many years ago was given a copy of Fascinating Fibonaccis which I have now used many times to talk with kids about Fibonacci numbers. I also love the picture book Rabbits Rabbits Everywhere ...
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This week I am thinking about all of the things I love! Next week it will be two years since I started this blog and I have to say I love blogging! I love talking about what is happening in the classroom and the research I am reading. I love connecting with wonderful teachers all over the country and I love all the things I have learned on this journey. Today I am taking a few minutes to say thanks to all my followers and everyone who has been with me on this wild ride. I am linking up with some of my newest blogger friends to bring you the I {Heart} My Followers Mega Giveaway! I will be giving away 2 different prize packs containing some of my favorite things and then you can click on the links at the bottom of this post to check out more great giveaways..JPG)
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