Candy Land Math

I absolutely love teaching math. I think it is my FAVORITE subject to teach. What is your favorite blogging buds? My grade level has divided up subjects for easy planning and luckily I get to plan MATH :)

I love to incorporate math games anytime I can into my lessons. This is a wonderful way to keep the kiddos engaged and active in their learning. I typically use data from daily quick checks and SuccessMaker to determine what the skill for each game will be. This weekend I finished up my Candy Land games with the skills being multiplication, subtraction and vocabulary. I have my guided math group going on during game time. My rotations are typically 15 minutes long. I give a quick quiz on Friday to check for mastery (plus to give me the data I need for next weeks groups). Check them out and on my TpT site let me know what you think! I will post pics later in the week of my precious babies playing and learning!

Have a wonderful week!

P.S. Stay tuned later in the week for vocabulary task cards and also a Unit on the Underground Railroad #mygradelevelrocks

Our Week

We had a fantastic week. My kids were on their A game, all week! Thursday we had the mad scientist from our town come. The entire school loved it! I have included pics :)

How does your class end their week? My class always ends with a family meeting. During our meeting we make a circle am of our week . Then students fill their classmates buckets. It is precious! We had a parent in our room yesterday, they looked shocked at our reflection time. I left yesterday without taking pics of our reflection wall. Oh well, happy 3 day weekend!

Class Dojo

I am in love with my iPad. I honestly take and use it wherever and whenever I can. Since my last iPad post I have found a new use for this wonderful piece of technology in the classroom: class dojo. I came across Class Dojo on Facebook of all places. One of my teacher friends (which one I cannot remember) posted a link encouraging teachers to check it out. Well, one looked and I was hooked!

Class dojo is an online classroom management tool. The first step is to add all of your students names. The site then gives each one a character to which you can reward points and consequentially take then away. This totally goes along with my ticket policy so I started on our first day back. The website has preset positive and negative behaviors however, you can adapt them to fit your needs.

I take my iPad everywhere the kids and I go,that way I can update their points all day long. At the end of the day I pass out tickets based I how many points they earned throughout the day. Class dojo offers a reports feature which will be valuable when conferencing with parents. Oh, I forgot to mention that it is FREE! Try it out and let me know what you think. Have a great Monday!