With all the shuffling today for track I found myself teaching a group of grade 5s, 6s and 7s from many different classes! There were only six students from my class who didn’t attend the track meet so many other students from other classes joined us today while their teachers supervised the meet. It was a fun experience. having a multi age environment.
The few students left from my class enjoyed showing off our classroom and showing of our classroom to our new classmates for the morning! We have so many fascinating projects going on that students from other divisions find fascinating…
I tried to follow our routine as much as possible. We had modified literacy centres this morning – I had everyone doing word work. Then I read the story One Grain of Rice on the document camera and we had fun with our manipulatives following along with the story and pausing in between to try out different math operations and ideas! I love using children’s literature in math, especially when some books pose such wonderful rich problems. After, I did a short lesson on digital literacy and we did some research on dying bee populations (another theme my class was able to help people get up to speed on!). The students have their eyes peeled now for plants in our community and on our school grounds that may attract pollinators. We ended the morning with some time after recess to work on projects that other teachers had left for us and some math fun!
In the afternoon we switched off with the other teachers and had an exciting afternoon at the track! (Many ribbons and smiles in my class!)
This was a wonderful experience for you Mahima! It is great that your students got to show the amazing work you have been doing in the classroom. I am sure the ones seeing it were engaged and filled with questions. It sounds like your morning was very successful and the afternoon filled with a different approach to student engagement! A great day!