First day of the new semester!

Thanks once again to Mrs. Hagan, I had a great worksheet to share with my students and fellow teachers on the beginning of the second semester of a year long course.  My kids said some of the sweetest things in their 6 word reflections.  You can find the sheet here.  When your students cannot think of a thing they would stop you from doing, (corny jokes included) you feel affirmed that you must be teaching in a way that engages students.  I was half expecting to see some "stop giving us homework almost every night", but those didn't even pop up.  The reflections that some students did were great.  I am putting them in a class time capsule and giving them back at the end of the semester to see if anything had indeed been kept, stopped, changed, or started.

My new resolutions are crazy big for just one year, so fingers crossed I will achieve them.  First, I am going back to grad school.  This time for a degree in education.  Second, blogging more.  This is the best way to reflect on what takes place in the classroom each day.  Third, more activities!

For those of you who may not know a new addition came to our household this past August.  Being out on maternity leave made coming back to kids that hardly knew me in the middle of a semester was hard.  But after doing my own version of the flyswatter game, another genius plan from Mrs. Hagan found here, I knew I needed to do more activities that I had essentially slacked on doing. 

We were even featured in the school newspaper!  I used the game to find the x- and y- intercept for the equations below.  Tomorrow I will share what else we did in class today, but it is time for me to pick up the babies for now.

Link here