Week 10

Graphing Fall

I feel as though I am getting classroom management down for kindergarten students. I have been learning that smooth transitions from one activity to another are important. I have also been learning that you must be prepared for anything in kindergarten. The students will always keep you on your toes.

This week Neal observed a math lesson on Thursday. We worked on graphing to answer the question "What do we like to do the most in Fall?" They had to options: carving pumpkings, playing football, or playing in the leaves. (See above picture) Students did a great job making this picture graph to determine most and fewest. Thanks for your constructive feedback and encouragement Neal!

One thing I am contonually learning and working on it having meaningful discussion about the concepts that we are learning. I want to be able to ask the students questions about the concepts to challenge their thinking. I like to use "What if..." questions. What if we had one more here.. or one less there.. would the outcome still be the same? These kinds of questions help with the students Depth of Knowledge.

Thanks Mrs. Swann and Mrs. Morris for helping me through this learning process. You are inspiring me to be a teacher who is well prepared!