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I feel like we haven’t done social studies or science in FOREVER. We finally did a little science today, but we still haven’t gotten to having both of them in a long time. Because Mr. Peterson is coming tomorrow, we are going to work really hard to make sure we get everything in, as well as have time to do both social and science.


Everyday that I watch Miss M teach math, I am more and more amazed. I am really good at math, but sometimes I feel that I may be good, but that doesn’t qualify me to be able to teach. The ideas and thoughts that I am getting from Miss M is really quite amazing!

Today she played a game with the students using cards. She called it “beat the teacher”, and continued to use the learning they were doing with place values in this game. Anyways the students would choose as many cards as Miss M said. She would have on her board automatically generated cards. The students would flip the cards and make the biggest (or smallest number) they could using those cards (depending on the rules that Miss M made). Miss M would then flip over her cards. All cards would be used besides the King and Jack. The Queen would be a zero, and the Ace would be a 1. It was really interesting to see what the kids would do with the numbers, and also what Miss M would have the students. At one point she had the students make a number after she made one for her. She would make the smallest number she could (or any number for that matter) and then she would have the students make a number (either not much higher than the one she already has made) and then she would make another number, not knowing what the students numbers were, and the students had to be in between the two numbers Miss M made. The rules were pretty simple. If 4 students beat the teacher, students got a point; if not Miss M got the point. It was really neat to see.

I won’t be teaching math until not next week, but the week after, so hopefully I get to learn a ton more! Multiplication starts on Monday in our daily math books, so hopefully Miss M is willing to take that on, because I’m not exactly sure how to go about that. The other thing is, on Tuesday of next week there is division in daily math. So it is really weird that one day they have the third graders learning multiplication, and then the next day they have them learning division. I am shell shocked, seriously!