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May 7th, 2008 by bmiatke
Today was Day Three of my placement at Horsham West P.S in the Year 6 classroom.
I ventured into fractions for my first whole class maths lesson of the week – explaining fractions and their equivalency with decimals and percentages. I tried to fill the lesson with games and as little sitting down and doing worksheets as possible, and I think the students like it this way. The day was also filled with Rotations in which my class ventured further into maths but moved onto a bit of area and measuring houses for carpet etc.
After lunch we hit the papers, the newspapers that is. We analysed the advertising inside devoted to mother’s day. We picked out the key features and applied these to our own personal Mother’s Day advertising piece. The student’s worked well and seemed to enjoy this activity.
The highlight of the day for me was when I gave them a conundrum just before lunch. It was a reasonably hard one and it was good to see the kids using their imaginations and coming up with some good questions. And after a few small hints from me, they actually got the correct answer. They enjoyed it so much we did some more after lunch as well!!!
Over all a great day! Looking forward to tomorrow.
Ben
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