Well I certainly did not plan to have to review as much as we had to today involving pennies and nickels. I planned to quickly review and work more with dimes but they seemed to need a lot of reinforcement after the week’s break. So I decided to settle down and make sure the students have a thorough understanding of pennies and nickels before moving on. Today I had separate stacks of pennies and nickels and gave the students two bowls to separate the two different coins. That seemed easy enough but then I had them work in groups and one student would trade 5 pennies for 1 nickel from the other student. They continued this activity until they had traded all their coins. It seemed to really be working so I sort of turned it into a race to see who could trade all their coins first. It got very exciting and a little wild but very worthwhile.
After a lot of thought I have decided that I still have a lot of great activities involving money that I would like to do. So I am going to pick out a much simpler activity to use for the videotape and then continue on with this unit for the next couple of weeks. I don’t feel comfortable jamming all the activities in this week just so I can videotape the certain activity that I wanted to. I will still follow my inquiry plan but it will be on a lower level that what I had planned. I hope as teachers everyone will understand the need to be flexible and adapt the plan to best fit the student’s needs.
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Sounds like you are making a good decision here and using some great formative assessment along the way- that is what good assessment is! I love your hands on activity with the money- I think that these concrete experiences will really help the kids master this concept. I also love that you have so many great ideas. What do you plan on doing with all of these when you are done? Will you make a resource binder or share them in some way?
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