I'm going to make more of an effort to be a blog teachers want to follow! I have been working diligently on anchor charts and pinning like a madwoman on Pinterest! Pinterest counts as professional development right? My goal this year is to incorporate more anchor charts that the students can refer to in the room. My school district is using Houghton Mifflin's Journeys Common Core, Math in Focus and McGraw Hill for social studies. So my blog will be related to those texts. Below I have included pictures for Point of View, Story Structure and Subject and predicate which are the skills in the first story in reading A Package for Mrs. Jewls from the Louis Sachar book Wayside School is Falling Down. I have also included a picture of a chart for place value which is lesson 1.1 in Math in Focus.
It is very important to me that students take ownership of their work and learning, so this year I have created some charts to help them with their ownership. The first chart is a "rate your learning" chart, the second chart explains their grade scale and what their grade means. The third chart is how to phrase questions. It drives me insane when a student says "I don't get it" or "I don't understand". My usual answer is..."If you have a question I'd be happy to answer it". They are often flummoxed by this response. I want them to tell me what or why they don't understand. Simply stating, "I don't understand" is lazy.
5th grade is not an easy job. It is my goal to help you make your 5th grade class (or intermediate class) a little bit easier to manage. Happy summer and see you soon!
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