Well today was not the best showing of my teaching skills. Those darling kiddos or my loving boyfriend got me sick. Either way I woke up this morning with a lovely burning sensation in my throat. Not a fan...
I started working with my crazy smarties in math today. Boy oh boy are they smart. They caught on to what I was teaching, and flew through the stuff I gave them. I was seriously impressed. Next time for one of my seriously gifted ones I will have to make sure I have something harder. 2nd grade material here I come!
I also got to feel what a train wreck lesson looks like. We introduced ones (cubes) and tens (longs) yesterday. They TOTALLY got it! Today not so much. So we're totally with it on tens and ones, but when it came to more than 10 ones it BLEW their minds. We struggle bused it through the lesson and I will definitely be reviewing tomorrow. They also don't want to write it or draw it out EVEN though it would definitely help. One of my sweet little honeys got SO distracted by the cubes and longs that she wasn't able to keep up. Needless to say, tomorrow we will be using whiteboards instead of manipulatives.
On a non teaching note, I didn't get a job that I applied for, but this opens me up to start my teaching career this fall. Everything happens for a reason, and I know this is one of those situations that I just have to be okay with.
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