Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Literacy & Math Blended Activities
I haven't been to my placement this week thus far, considering the school district I am placed in had off Monday-Wednesday. So, I'll continue on a bit from last week and address my concerns. I know we're supposed to help address literacy needs and help students grow stronger in the literacy area, but the classroom I am in for my placement is strictly all math at the time I am there. The Reading and Writing block in my classroom is during the mornings, and since I arrive at 11:30, I miss it. As much as I love math, this is upsetting to me because I want to be able to tutor the students in literacy as well, but my cooperating teacher is strict about the math block. As I stated last week, the students rotate through centers and I run the math game center most of the time. Even though my cooperating teacher has certain games assigned for each day, I want to be able to create something of my own some days; not just a math game, but something fun where I can tie literacy in as well. The centers rotate about every 15 minutes and I have no idea what I could do in that amount of time. I feel like 15 minutes is not much time at all. If either of you have any ideas please let me know; it would be a great help! I'm hoping my cooperating teacher will let me do something along these lines!
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I understand where you're coming from when you say you don't really work directly with literacy, which I posted about too in my last post. But like I said in mine, you're still making an impact which is very satisfying.
ReplyDeleteDuring our math time the teacher is at the board writing out problems a lot of the time, but today she mentioned putting the kids into math groups and doing activities more often - so if I think of or see anything that could work with your class I will definitely let you know!
-Ashley