Monday, November 28, 2016
A great resource
Over the past couple of weeks I have seen my CT teach many language arts and math lessons. During both of these type of lessons she has used the website abcya.com. They give games/activities for every K-5 level. The lessons she has primarily used it for is counting money, addition games, word finds, and spelling games. I would definitely use this website in my classroom because it works great with the smart board. Not to mention that when you click on a subject there is multiple different activity's for each area. Every time the class uses the website all of the students are engaged and involved in the activities. Have any of your CT's used any particular websites or app's that you think are beneficial to use while teaching?
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This resource definitely looks like it would be an absolute match for the interactive whiteboard. Thank you for sharing it! I know this is not exactly what you ask, but I believe it is close enough. My CT-- from what I have seen-- truly does not use apps or particular websites for teaching. Apart from the curriculum website Wonders, of course. The one thing that stands out to me is how she does her morning meetings.
ReplyDeleteWe learned in ED 315 that they were supposed to go with a greeting, sharing, activity, and a morning message. However, the group of second graders I work with this does not work too well since they need more of a routine with everything is the same.
That being said, she has the second graders do various tasks throughout by drawing their name stick for each individual one. It starts with the date and what the corresponding days (today, tomorrow, and yesterday) of the week. Then, the go into checking out the temperature and weather. They also count coins for how many days it has been so far into their school year. That counting scheme continues into them building the number with blocks while staying if the number is odd or even. After that, they build four fact families for three numbers up on the board. Finally, it ends with them clicking on a random number generator, then they have to take that number and put in a corresponding spot. The spot on the left makes it where they solve one less and one more. The right spot is the same idea but now ten less or ten more. In the middle between the two original numbers is a big circle where they say it is either less than, greater than, or equal to.
I know it sounds extremely tedious, but it works perfectly to help engage their tired brains right away in the morning. It also allows all of them to participate in something they will get correct. The subject material afterwards tends to get harder for the students to comprehend, so it seems to work as a confidence booster as well.