Week 32: May 22nd-26th

    

    Monday, May 22nd

➽Activity of the day: Reading with different students

    Mrs. Carlson was gone today so I read with students I typically don't spend much time with. The first one I read with is a jokester. Throughout the course of the year, I've learned how to keep control over him when we're working together. It is a delicate balance between joking with him and calling him out to pay attention. He's a good kid.

    I enjoy the other student I read with. She moved here from another country (I don't think she told me which one) and is awed by books. I love encouraging her to get lost in them and explore all she can.

                   


    Wednesday, May 24th

➽Activity of the day: Blurt Out

    The end of a semester is fantastic because you get to play games. I played Blurt Out with a group of five today. To play, I read a clue describing an object. The kids would write down what they thought the object was on white boards. When everyone wrote down their guess, I would say "Flip your boards!" If they wrote it correctly, they would move four squares across the game board. If they guessed the correct object but didn't spell it correctly, they would move three. The game is called blurt out because if they blurted out their guess while people were writing (or peeked at another kids' board), they would move back to start.



    Thursday, May 25th

➽Activity of the day: Math detectives

    I worked with the same group from yesterday. Today we were doing a math game. To begin, I had them popcorn read a page which gives background over a murder mystery. After, there was a sheet which had many blank spaces and numbers underneath them. They would solve a math equation and the product would correspond with a letter. Each letter would go in a box that had the answer to the equation underneath it. When they finished every equation, the letters in the boxes would be a written clue about who the murderer was.



    Friday, May 26th

➽Activity of the day: Jeopardy

    We played Jeopardy as a class today. The kids were on three teams. Each team was in a column of chairs from the front of the classroom to the back. The questions had to do with butterflies and moths- the subject they have been learning in science. They got into it! I had to tell a kid there was no crying in Jeopardy. I'm glad to see they have a competitive side, and how much information they retained from their science unit.

Note: The kids told each other to look sad when they saw me get my phone out to take a picture. In reality, there were many smiles, cheers and competitive game play!



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  1. Ms. DunleyJune 1, 2023 at 8:39 AM

    How often are games incorporated in your high school classes?

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