Waiting for the Data

One of the coolest parts of my job is meeting the needs of my students academically.  I feel fortunate that I am able to work with small groups of kids and assess them to figure out where they are at and make a plan to push them further.  But that also means that January is a waiting game.  All the students are completing their i-ready diagnostics in school right now.  I keep checking and checking, and waiting so I can plan upcoming units and figure out my next move as a teacher.  

I get to figure out cool puzzles like how can I place coordinate plane learning and dry ice together to come up with some amazing lessons?  How do I help my students learn to listen to one another and from one another during discussion in class?  What can I do to facilitate learning?

When the i-ready data comes in, I will look for trends and develop units around it.  I have my data for third grade and it looks like fractions are next on the list.  I love fractions!  I am super excited to dive into them with the kids.  I think we will break out play dough, recipes, number lines, maybe string and paper as well.... we will look at math talks and can even break out the counting collections to help us identify fractions out of a whole!

There are so many fun manipulatives that we can play with.  I am really looking forward to the coming month or so and playing math with my kids.