Friday Musings: Week One 2017-2018

The notecard challenge was lots of fun.
Students were amazingly engaged and creative.

It was a wonderful week with colleagues and students. The children are a curious crew with lots of energy. This week we essentially started setting the stage for optimal learning.

Next week, we'll continue with a number of team building activities including the following:

Spaghetti-Marshmallow Challenge
We'll spend some time discussing what worked and what could have been better with regard to the note card challenge, and apply that learning to the spaghetti-marshmallow teamwork challenge.

Birthday/What's Your Number Math
We'll continue to build team by engaging in math related to birthdays and numbers related to our names. These are good activities to review vocabulary, number knowledge, graphing, and mathematical thinking. The activities also help to build knowledge of one another which helps to build a strong team.

Read Aloud
We'll continue the good read aloud we've started.

Selfie Project/Math Tech
Students will use the chromebooks to complete Selfie projects and complete math warm ups.

Brain Knowledge
I have a great opportunity to spend a day learning the latest brain research, research that will help me to teach and learn in brain-friendly ways.