Room 5 is full swing for the 2011-2012 school year! What a great group of young people we have!
This week is a bit different than what our average week will look like for most of the year. For example, there is math homework coming home...with no time to work on it in class. Today, we reviewed last nights homework. I called students up to the overhead to solve the problem and 'think out loud' so we could all hear what they were thinking. "Thinking out loud" is a common practice in room 5.
Our daily schedule and our routines will all be discussed at Back-to-School night on September 8th.
We've talked about how easy it can be to sit in your seat and KNOW how to solve problems...but how it can all of a sudden be very difficult if you're up in front of the class. In solving the subtraction problem in this photo, once one of the boys couldn't remember how to work the problem, he selected a 'helper'... and then when the 'helper' needed help, he called on another 'helper'...which is why we have the 3 boys in this photo!
Oh, I thought I'd just throw this awesome photo of my boots and 2 of my friends' boots in for your viewing pleasure!!! :)
Here's to a great year!
