DMiC Term 3

It is Term 3 and we have come a long way in our learning. I am so proud of my learners and the progress we have made. For some, their success may not be shown on a graph but it can be seen in terms of their confidence, the value added and personal growth.

What I have noticed: 
- I can complete a group lesson in an hour with priority learners without major interruptions from others. The other half of my class can work independently on tasks as I work with my priority learners. (Group of 8 children)
- Children are getting better at managing themselves when working at a group level and then working with their partners.
-When working with their partners they making sure that they take turns- doing this by themselves. They ask each other questions making sure that they both agree and understand their method of solving the problem 
(drawing, number line, grouping number sentence)
- We solve about 3 problems in one lesson.
-Good sharing when we come together as group.
-Children are explaining, repeating, asking questions, starting to agree and disagree.
- Getting better with our number knowledge and basic facts.
-High level of engagement, children working with partners when doing consolidating activity.
-Children ask to do more maths, ask when we doing maths, Hunter wants to do maths during playtime.
- Very flexible when working with others.

Challenges:
Some children still lack number knowledge. They find it difficult when a given a problem with numbers above 30. A few children read the numbers backward, for example, children say 15 for 51.
Mathematical language concepts: uderstanding the problem, breaking down the vocab within the problem. Teacher taking things for granted- words like each, ate(number 8)
Time is another factor. - Not enough time. 

What next:

Continue working on building number knowledge: number identification 1-100, the number before, the number after, number patterns, doubles and basic facts.

Make changes to my timetable, maybe do maths in the morning. 

How to keep up the high level of engagement and the desire to do more maths during the day (Explain Everything activities)  and  (set up a box with questions) that children can take and do as home learning if they wished to.

It is Term 3 and we have come a long way in our learning. I am so proud of my learners and the progress we have made.

Working together as a group:

                                               

 Here is a video of one of our lessons:

Word problem: There are 4 teddy bears. Each teddy eats 2 cookies. How many cookies got eaten altogether?