My most successful lesson this week was when we were working on shapes for our Geometry lesson. I had the students split up in to 4 groups. Three of the groups were working on attributes dealing with a guessing game, and making an attribute train on the floor. The other group was working on their math box page. The group I was working with at the smartboard was working with fact circles and interactive dice for the number to add to the numbers in the circle. We also used the shapes to make and fill in with color a picture. This was the target to make a picture of something using the different shapes. So the students chose a shape and a fill in color. They really liked it and enjoyed learning the shapes, and using the smartboard. All the students go to rotate throught the activities. At the end we moved our pictures on the line to see how they felt about knowing their shapes. It was a good way for me to see how they felt they undrstood what we did. Most of them got the target.
In the future My principal has asked if we could put the GTC chart onto a smart board notebook page so we can just move the targets around when they become the different forms of work for us. We are going to work on making something like that for the grade levels. That way they where know where they were with each area and if it is learning work or adaptive work or standard work. We thought it would be a fun thing to create for the teams.