My last post showed one way I teach my students to figure out elapsed time. Today, I’m over at the Ellison Education blog showing how I introduce elapsed time in the beginning. It’s so important to start as concretely as possible, and I love giving my students clocks to do it themselves. Click the picture below to head on over and see what we did.
Students struggle with doing measurement conversions, especially when they have to work with adding and subtracting those measurements first. When my students have worked through word problems that asked for the units in a specific way, they often struggle to remember to convert between units and struggle to add and subtract correctly. When teaching elapsed time, I originally always taught it with the backwards N (which is the same as the zoom method) and with
This is the time of year when it all comes together. The hours and hours of hard work are on the line for the big, important state test. Kids are not only practicing the skills they’ve learned this year, but also applying them with increasing difficulty. Early in the year, I shared this image of our problem solving wall. We start practicing problem solving very early on in the year. No matter how much we
As the end of the year is drawing near, I thought I’d do a post sharing some of the anchor charts we’ve created throughout the year. Now, I’ll be perfectly honest and say my creative skills are lacking. I make these with my students, and so my handwriting is often sloppy as I’m quickly writing, and there are a few authentic mistakes. But that’s what makes them real and useful in our rooms. I also
Click the image above to go to all of my other Wednesday Website posts. It’s been a few weeks since I’ve shared a new site with you on Wednesday Website, but this week I’m back with my new FAVORITE website! Let me start by explaining the technology that we have available to us. In our class we have 6 ancient computers that sometimes work, and sometimes don’t. The computers are at least 10 years old,
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