Wrapping Up Our Week

Friday was a pretty good day for my students.  I was pleasantly surprised by this, especially after the notes that I received from my sub early this week.  My students enjoyed our math centers, which included our tablet center with a focus on addition/subtraction game (at least that is what they were suppose to be working on), addition facts practice, equal equations (true/false), and I worked with students on word problems.  It is funny how whenever I try and take a picture, there is always 1 student who has to turn and smile at the camera, if you look at our science picture for today some how he managed to get into a picture!

We finished up our ramp experiment today and also completed an experiment on friction.  My students had fun with this experiment.  The only problem with this experiment is that the majority of them were too short to do the experiment correctly.  They had to hold both ends of a shoelace and release a spindle from the top to see how long it would take it to get to the bottom of the shoelace.  They were surprised as to how fast it went on just one shoelace.  We then proceeded to send the spindle down two shoelaces.  To get the spindle to move, we had to give the shoelaces a shake, this is where we had difficulty because of our height.  We tried three shoelaces but could not get the spindle to move at all!

There is my photo bomber student in the bottom picture!

Our Friday ended with a PBIS Dance.  The majority of my students were able to attend.  There is nothing like ending the day in the gym with loud music and 40-50 1st graders running around.  I was so happy when the music stopped and the dance was over.

I have my first observation of the year on Thursday.  The rest of this weekend will be spent making sure that I have an amazing lesson plan for my math lesson.  This is going to be a challenge because this is a review week.  I have a feeling, that my plans are going to be a lot center work.  Off to find some amazing resources on addition/subtraction, word problems, shapes, and equal equations.

Enjoy you weekend!

Amber