I got the "Welcome Back!" letter in my inbox recently with all the important professional development dates, and I started setting up my new classroom this week. So, it's really starting to sink in that I'm about to start my new job!
Here's a small peek at five things I've been up to lately.
1. Classroom progress pictures! So far, I'm just hanging posters I have made in the past. I've made a bunch of new posters, but they need to be printed on 11 x 17 card stock. I'm so new at my school that I don't even know where the copy machine is. I mean, I know where it was ten years ago when I was a student there, but things change. I'm a bit scared to just go opening random doors, but I guess I will have to figure this out at some point. Also on my list of things to figure out: where in the world is the teacher's lounge? I have New Teacher Orientation on the 10th (so soon...eek!), so I'm guessing I will have a lot of my questions answered then.
A math room isn't complete (in my opinion) without a number line!
My order of operations posters took a bit of a beating last year thanks to students' backpacks, so I really need to reprint A and S. But, I went ahead and hung the old ones up in case I don't get to that item on my to do list for a while.
It's nowhere near done, but it looks like a room that I could teach class in tomorrow if I had to!
2. Friday, I got to see
Chris Shore present "Reaching and Teaching "Those Kids."" It was very thought-provoking, and I really enjoyed watching Chris execute his well thought-out teacher moves.
Chris equipped us with lots of different strategies for engaging every student every class period.
I was super-excited to get to see
Clothesline Math in action!
I'll definitely be looking for ways to incorporate the clothesline into my Algebra 2 and Pre-Calc classroom! I also love the 4 digit problem. The task: make the numbers between 1-100 using exactly 4 eights and any exponent of your choosing (except 8).
3. I spent some quality time recently updating my teacher planner with some new calendar pages. Special shout-out to
my husband for designing an
excel file to automatically generate these pages!
Last year, it took a bit of adjusting to get used to a vertical layout. But, I discovered I LOVE it!
4. I found a bunch of
safe-t compasses (affiliate link) at a garage sale. I'm super excited to use these in my classroom this year. Then, when I was cleaning out my cabinets of my new classroom, I found some giant demonstration sized safe-t compasses. I'm thinking these will come in handy teaching pre-calc!
5. My wooden cubes came in the mail! I've got big plans for these
100 one inch cubes (affiliate link)! I found at least three different puzzles online made of cubes that I will be making for my puzzle table! Now, I just have to find some time to paint them. I can't wait to share these ideas on the blog as I get them made and introduce them to my students!
Source: https://mathequalslove.blogspot.com/2018/08/five-things-not-friday-volume-21.html
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