Here's a riddle my seven year-old friend told me.
A man runs 90 feet then turns to his left. He runs another 90 feet and turns left again. He does it one more time and then runs home. Two men with masks are standing there, What are their jobs?
I like to use this riddle when we start our unit on quadrilaterals. If you don't know the answer-I will put the answer at then end of the post. But the next section should be pretty much the clue that gives it away.
Its baseball season around here. Not MLB, the Mets had a characteristically bad year, and the Yankees an uncharacteristically bad one, so no one is following the playoffs too closely. What people are following is the baseball tryouts. I think I've said put your glove away almost as often as "put your phone away."
The skill level range from Carlos in the inclusion class who is convinced he will be captain to Bobby who really wants to get there but not sure he can make it (to the field, not the team). Dan said it was okay if Juan followed him to the field but he was going to go fast so Juan had to keep up. Juan wasn't worried. Dan was wearing the neon blue baseball team pants . They're not in the same class as Bobby, I couldn't find Bobby- he would have to find the coach. Just for the record the field the team practices in is not some emerald pasture behind the school. Its a bus ride away in a city park. So much pressure.
If you think baseball is hard- you should try math.
Wednesday was one of those days I thought I was a really great teacher. The self contained class was working on a foldable on angle relationships. It involved watching videos and copying stuff from a template. Two skills that they mastered. It was going really well. People cooperated, people persevered, even helped each other. A perfect day. Of course there was chaos in the hallway and there was a variety of thumps and yelps against our door, which made me (stupidly) open the door. I complained to the security guard that that I couldn't teach with such disruptive behavior. She peaked into the room and said, "but they're behaving beautifully."
Never mind.
Thursday we worked on applying the rules to math problems. Okay, so now I think I am only a pretty good teacher. It didn't go terribly, it didn't go great, but I can see how complementary sounds almost the same as supplementary.
Thursday afternoon was the mandatory Danielson training. This is the place where I learn how to be a good teacher. The topic was classroom environment. I learned that highly effective teachers have classroom routines suggested by their students so that taking attendance doesn't interfere with instructional time.
Friday we worked on using the foldables to solve the angle relationship problems. I couldn't find my attendance sheet. I dropped the box of markers, I could't find the templates we used on Wednesday and I didn't have the right color paper. (So I teach in five different classrooms- highly effective teachers don't make excuses) Kenny said I was boring and put his head down to sleep. Bobby couldn't concentrate because he was worried he couldn't find the baseball field.
Okay-- maybe I'm a highly ineffective teacher.
So it goes. Another week begins tomorrow.
Umpire and catcher, the man ran the bases, and arrived at home-plate -where the catcher and umpire were standing, wearing protective masks. The baseball diamond is really a square,
A man runs 90 feet then turns to his left. He runs another 90 feet and turns left again. He does it one more time and then runs home. Two men with masks are standing there, What are their jobs?
I like to use this riddle when we start our unit on quadrilaterals. If you don't know the answer-I will put the answer at then end of the post. But the next section should be pretty much the clue that gives it away.
Its baseball season around here. Not MLB, the Mets had a characteristically bad year, and the Yankees an uncharacteristically bad one, so no one is following the playoffs too closely. What people are following is the baseball tryouts. I think I've said put your glove away almost as often as "put your phone away."
The skill level range from Carlos in the inclusion class who is convinced he will be captain to Bobby who really wants to get there but not sure he can make it (to the field, not the team). Dan said it was okay if Juan followed him to the field but he was going to go fast so Juan had to keep up. Juan wasn't worried. Dan was wearing the neon blue baseball team pants . They're not in the same class as Bobby, I couldn't find Bobby- he would have to find the coach. Just for the record the field the team practices in is not some emerald pasture behind the school. Its a bus ride away in a city park. So much pressure.
If you think baseball is hard- you should try math.
Wednesday was one of those days I thought I was a really great teacher. The self contained class was working on a foldable on angle relationships. It involved watching videos and copying stuff from a template. Two skills that they mastered. It was going really well. People cooperated, people persevered, even helped each other. A perfect day. Of course there was chaos in the hallway and there was a variety of thumps and yelps against our door, which made me (stupidly) open the door. I complained to the security guard that that I couldn't teach with such disruptive behavior. She peaked into the room and said, "but they're behaving beautifully."
Never mind.
Thursday we worked on applying the rules to math problems. Okay, so now I think I am only a pretty good teacher. It didn't go terribly, it didn't go great, but I can see how complementary sounds almost the same as supplementary.
Thursday afternoon was the mandatory Danielson training. This is the place where I learn how to be a good teacher. The topic was classroom environment. I learned that highly effective teachers have classroom routines suggested by their students so that taking attendance doesn't interfere with instructional time.
Friday we worked on using the foldables to solve the angle relationship problems. I couldn't find my attendance sheet. I dropped the box of markers, I could't find the templates we used on Wednesday and I didn't have the right color paper. (So I teach in five different classrooms- highly effective teachers don't make excuses) Kenny said I was boring and put his head down to sleep. Bobby couldn't concentrate because he was worried he couldn't find the baseball field.
Okay-- maybe I'm a highly ineffective teacher.
So it goes. Another week begins tomorrow.
Umpire and catcher, the man ran the bases, and arrived at home-plate -where the catcher and umpire were standing, wearing protective masks. The baseball diamond is really a square,
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