Holes

So, in reading most of the my reading class were doing awesome! They needed to be reminded of some tips and tricks but other then that they were great on it! I also want to remind you that we just got done reviewing for AIMs so they better have been fresh!

Math...I noticed a tad more holes in the fraction area. Now again, we just got done reviewing of AIMs so we went over place value, expanded notation, addition and subtraction strategies; everything we did at the beginning of the year. But, fractions...yea, they just were not as solid as I would have hoped that they would be on them! So we reviewed via Galileo BUT this awesome new math website helped do the review with me (for all topics). I found this website about three weeks ago, went to tell Shana who just so happened to find the same website from another blog and then we got an email that very day from Robyn sharing it out! That meant we had to try it! It's called Front Row. So once you go through the not so fun process of getting everyone signed into your class (via a class code they give you when you set up your account...oh and it's FREE) then they take a pretest. After that they pick one of the 5 common core topics: fractions, geometry, numbers in base 10, counting, cardinal and algebraic thinking and data and measurement. Normally I'd assign them something to allow me to do the next part.

So they are playing, earning coins, seeing the leader boards...whatever...my favorite part of the kid version is that when they get a question wrong they get to watch a video that explains how to do the question! OR under the announcement of  "Wrong" they write kids name in the class that mastered that standard that you could ask for help! What a genius concept!

Now, for the teacher side...oh the teacher side! The thing I've utilized the most is the differentiated worksheets. You can click on each main topic (fractions or geometry) and within that it will generate a worksheet for each student in the class and where they had the most problems in based on their accuracy in that topic. So, I have actually been giving homework for the past week. Everyday for computer center they play on an assigned topic, then when everyone is done with it I print out the worksheets and see where they have the most problems. The topics all start at kindergarten and then as you get the questions correct they build through the grade levels (except for fractions because that standard doesn't start until 3rd grade).

So I don't have any pictures BUT I hope you can tell I'm excited about this program and so are the kids!