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I like the idea of having the students come up with their own questions. How will you provide scaffolding and assistance to those students having trouble? Will there be a format or examples of questions they can use?

4/23/12 - As far as seatwork, I think this lesson plan gave too much freedom to the students. Plus, students seem to find the content too easy that it led them to go find something else to do. - I think coming up with their own word problems may have been a bit challenging for first grade. It worked out that I had given them a model to work off of but I still feel that some students struggled. They all worked at their own pace so it was difficult to trade and solve each other's problems. - RJ was having a bad day. She was defiant and refused to follow directions. It became a problem when this started rubbing off on other students. It almost seemed like a domino effect. Students that normally do well even started acting out. - When I talked to my mentor teacher, she told me that RJ actually has a behavior chart. She suggested that I mark her chart if she behaves that way next time. If that doesn't work, I may have to start taking away from her recess time.

4/24/12 - My students just adore the part-part-whole card game! I love the game because it's easy to assess student learning since we're solving problems on the whiteboard while playing the game. I wish to use this game again in the future.