I still write out my lesson plans the good old fashioned way, in my lesson plan book. I like to do this because it serves as a pacing record for me, from year to year. Nothing in my lesson plan book is ever etched in stone. I will spend an extra day reviewing if need be, or if students have mastered a concept and I planned a day of review I will skip that. I always find it is better to have too much prepared, than not enough. If you have an extra 5-10 minutes at the end of class where everyone is finished with homework, I like to use that time for an educational game or to wrap up the learning concept for the day.
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My lesson plans for this week. YAY for having Friday off! Thursday is an inservice day full of meetings. :(
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This is just a quick peek into what my lesson plan book looks like and how I structure my math lessons. I hope you are all having a nice weekend. We have had a gorgeous fall weekend here in WI. I spent yesterday watching three football games in the morning, had the best burger for lunch at a new local restaurant, spent way too much money at Sam's Club as always, and then took a several hour nap. The nap was pure bliss! Last night I caught up on my DVRd episodes of Revenge after dinner.
Today I ended up skipping church so I could go into school and work in my classroom. I did not accomplish everything I hoped to, but that always seems to be the case for me. I am teaching One-step equations to my accelerated students this week and subtracting integers with my regular students. We only have three days with students and then Thursday is a full day of teacher inservice.
Jealous of your three day week. We've already had our PD day and Thanksgiving, so we're at full five-day weeks until Christmas ... sigh ...
ReplyDeleteJen
Runde's Room
Love your "old school" plans :)
ReplyDeleteI created myself a word template 2 years ago and I just plug the following week's info. into it.
I might just blog about my template this week.
Have a great week :)
❤ Mor ❤
A Teacher's Treasure
Hi Sherrie:
ReplyDeleteHave you seen the "party" PowerPoint with positive and negative integers? I always try to teach my kids the concept on a number line, but this year they are going nowhere fast, so I might try the "party people." I'll try and find the link. Last year's students liked it!
Have a great week. Your weekend sounded like pure BLISS to me!
Kim
Finding JOY in 6th Grade
Okay... After a bit of searching... It's an old Promethean flipchart... no longer accessible.
ReplyDeletePositive numbers are "good guys" and negative numbers are "bad guys." Who outnumbers whom and by how much... It's a visual way of showing the concept without explicitly teaching the rule...
I'm sure you've got lots of even better stuff, but I remembered my kids clicked with the party idea--go figure!
Happy day!
Kim
Finding JOY in 6th Grade