Day 62

I hate Mondays before a holiday. It is getting real tough to get my students to stay on task and to focus. Math was a disaster today. Trying to get students to look at problem solving strategy is so tough for 5th graders. it is even tough for 5th grade teachers. I know that I did not get through to them. It was tough enough to get them to divide. Problem solving is worse. From day one I have had my students do story problems. From day one I have not been able to get the majority of them to think through the words and to set up the problem so it is a normal math problem.

Social Studies did not go much better. I showed them a web page about Jamestown and the settlement of Virginia. I could not get them to listen. I am almost ready to show it to them again tomorrow. I should have given them some sort of Graphic Organizer to fill out. I think why I did not was to see the web page on the PPP I needed to turn the lights off.

I left work today at 4:45 so I could go shopping.