It turns out that we are ahead of the game when it comes to our measurement unit. We have a few days to be flexible so we decided that the students need a little bit of more practice with word problems involving comparison bar models. They will be doing a lot of work with word problems later on in their schooling career and in their everyday lives so we believe this is a good skill to practice! It also forces children to be more deep, critical thinkers.
Here is the interactive whiteboard website that we worked with: students could even do this at home! http://www.mathplayground.com/tb_addition/thinking_blocks_addition_subtraction.html
Because my cooperating teacher and I had a professional development workshop in the afternoon there was a substitute. With the substitute, the students did both science and inferring work.
In science, students read about planets and recorded different facts about them.
In LA, students walked around the classroom where there were pictures displayed and students were making inferences based on the pictures.
Here is the interactive whiteboard website that we worked with: students could even do this at home! http://www.mathplayground.com/tb_addition/thinking_blocks_addition_subtraction.html
Because my cooperating teacher and I had a professional development workshop in the afternoon there was a substitute. With the substitute, the students did both science and inferring work.
In science, students read about planets and recorded different facts about them.
In LA, students walked around the classroom where there were pictures displayed and students were making inferences based on the pictures.