Someone asked me, "How do you do all of this and have a young family?" I am used to hearing people say, "Do you ever sleep?" Yes, I sleep. In fact, I need at least 8 hours of sleep each night. Rest is important for me to function at full speed as well as for my recovering brain. It's a fair question. When I was a beginning teacher, I would arrive at school early in the morning and stay there until past dinner. Then, most nights I was doing work at home before bed. It would've been really difficult for me to be an excellent teacher if I were just now starting with littles at home (not to say that others who are just starting and have littles at home can't be excellent teachers, just that it would've been hard for ME). But due to that hard (and likely unhealthy) work back then, I have a lot of strategies in my teacher tool kit and many resources to pull from. I also spend an hour each day in the summer working on resources that will help me durin...
Ready, steady, GO!
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I have a 4 year old and a 2 year old. We LOVE Peppa Pig in our house. I was trying to wrap my head around to a way to better differentiate my math block. I have read about math cafe, other blogs, and scoured my social media resources for something that would fit into our hour of math time. I needed something that included choice, student independence, support, and enrichment. While watching yet another episode (or Peppasode as we call them), I heard the characters say, "Ready, steady, go" and it clicked. That was exactly how I should run my math block!
Ready is the students who are ready to learn more.
Steady is the group of students who feel like they are good to go on their own.
Go is the group of students who feel like they got it and need extension.
The great thing about this model is that students choose which group they think they need to be in for that particular daily lesson. So, one day a student might not quite understand the lesson and choose to be in the ready group, but the next day he really understood, so he put himself into the steady group. I enjoy seeing students choose the go group and take on the challenge. Of course, I tell students if they choose poorly, I reserve the right to switch them into another group. Having this dail choice and flexibility gives students ownership of their learning. Isn't that what we are all striving to do more of in our classrooms?
Here's a copy of my lesson plan.
Free Resources Included!
I have a 4 year old and a 2 year old. We LOVE Peppa Pig in our house. I was trying to wrap my head around to a way to better differentiate my math block. I have read about math cafe, other blogs, and scoured my social media resources for something that would fit into our hour of math time. I needed something that included choice, student independence, support, and enrichment. While watching yet another episode (or Peppasode as we call them), I heard the characters say, "Ready, steady, go" and it clicked. That was exactly how I should run my math block!
Ready is the students who are ready to learn more.
Steady is the group of students who feel like they are good to go on their own.
Go is the group of students who feel like they got it and need extension.
The great thing about this model is that students choose which group they think they need to be in for that particular daily lesson. So, one day a student might not quite understand the lesson and choose to be in the ready group, but the next day he really understood, so he put himself into the steady group. I enjoy seeing students choose the go group and take on the challenge. Of course, I tell students if they choose poorly, I reserve the right to switch them into another group. Having this dail choice and flexibility gives students ownership of their learning. Isn't that what we are all striving to do more of in our classrooms?
Here's a copy of my lesson plan.
Ready!
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Steady!
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Go!
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Warm Up
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Review morning work.
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Whole Group
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Work on p. 788-789 at the back table.
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Students complete p. 788-790 1-10
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Students complete p. 788-790 1-12
then Ed Galaxy
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Choice:
Ed Galaxy
Partner Math Grid
Sumdog
Math 24
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Choice:
Ed Galaxy
Partner Math Grid
Sumdog
Math 24
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Enrich activity at the back table.
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Exit Ticket
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Name something in our classroom that has a mass greater than 1 kg but less than 10 kg.
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HW
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p. 791
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Here is what I post in slides for my students to see each day:
Ready!
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Steady!
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Go!
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1
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Work on p. 788-789 at the back table.
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Students complete p. 788-790 1-10
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Students complete p. 788-790 1-12 then Ed Galaxy
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2
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Choice:
Ed Galaxy
Partner Math Grid
Sumdog
Math 24
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Choice:
Ed Galaxy
Partner Math Grid
Sumdog
Math 24
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Enrich activity at the back table.
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HW
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p. 785
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We've been doing this model for a month now and it's going really well. It leaves me time to work with small group for remediation and enrichment and I'm better to reach students at their levels!
Bonus Freebie Resource: The links for my morning work slides (spiral review) and for my slides on measurement are live. Feel free to grab them for use in your classroom!
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