Field Experience Reflection

Wow! Time is flying. I can't believe this is my second week in the schools. Things are going great! I have a 4th grade inclusion class and there is never, ever a dull moment! I taught my first prior lesson Monday on multiplication. I used one of the games that we learned in Mrs. Fancher's class, multiplication wrestling. The students really enjoyed the game and did not want to stop playing it. I teach my next lesson tomorrow and i'm very excited about it. This lesson will be on rounding and estimation. I have also identified and have  started working on my unit topic. The topic is measurement. However, because the students are so busy studying for the MCT2 test I plan to make the unit a geography theme to incorporate some social studies into the class. I'm very excited about the unit and all the great information I have found. For anyone else that maybe working on measurement I found this great website. Its actually a blog post of a teacher. She has really great activities that can be used to teach all different types of measurement. The website is http://nerdyteacherconfessions.edublogs.org/tag/4th-grade-measurement-unit/. I hope everyone else is having a great experience in their class as well!