Long Time No See

Hello again.

It's been a while since I posted anything because the school year seems to have swallowed me whole.  I LOVE this year's crop of munchkins, but it's been a lot of work settling into my new room and getting used to the new routines and procedures of my new school.  Not to mention that the foundation of my house cracked, and I've been dealing with getting estimates and scheduling repairs.

So the foundation dudes are at my house today, which means so am I.  Finally, a personal day so I can catch up on laundry and housecleaning and blogging... and checking in on my house's foundation and the plants they have to dig up to get to the foundation.  I think I got a great company to work on it.  They've been very professional and seem to be doing some good work (like I know what I'm talking about).  I knew I had made the right choice when they broke for lunch a little while ago and they were all sitting out front in their truck eating sandwiches... except for one guy, who unpacked his microwave, plugged it into the generator, and heated up his soup.  I LOVE seeing creativity and ingenuity in action!

Anyway...

I put up a new math activity on Teachers Pay Teachers this morning.  I used it last week with my munchkins as they prepped for their subtraction test.  We'd covered so many skills during our unit that I wanted to give them a chance to practice them all one more time before formally assessing their abilities.

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 I had divided the munchkins into 4 groups {no ability grouping here--I wanted my stronger math thinkers to interact with my strugglers so they could model their thinking as they worked}, and we rotated through the stations.  I put subtraction flash cards and math books at each station so early finishers would have something to do while they waited.

The kids loved doing this activity!  They told me that it was WAY better than a worksheet or revisiting activities we'd already done.  They like talking about the math as they work through the problems, and being able to get up and move to the next station helps to keep the wiggles at bay.

I'd love to hear what you do to help your kids review for tests.  Do you do the same thing every time, or mix it up?


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