Week 4 CES

This week, we learned about contractions.  I really did not know how to explain them to the students when I was studying over the material.  I liked the explanation that Mrs. Britt gave me for contractions.  I used it when I taught the lessons.  She explained that contractions are words that collide together like a car wreck.  Sometimes cars lose parts in a wrecks.  Words can lose letters when they collide together.  I also explained that an apostrophe replaces the letters are missing.  I liked this explanation because it was something that they could relate to.  Last week, I noticed that the students were trying to get ahead of me when we were counting in math slideshow.  I liked how Mrs. Britt stopped the pointer to see if everyone was paying attention.  The students started paying more attention to where my pointer was when I taught on Tuesday.  Next week, I am going to talk to the whole group about how they sit during math slideshow.  After lunch, they are trying to spread out too far, and they are not paying attention as well.  Over the weekend and next week, I need to focus on finding double-digit subtraction games.  Also I need to finish my lesson for the unit. By the second week of my unit, I want to start looking for games for the next weeks material.  I  want to help plan more where I will not feel like I am not doing enough.