Well, here it is...the first blog. My friends and loyal facebook followers have been asking for it for a while. It seems most logical that I will use this blog to share thoughts and happenings in my classroom with a small slice of the occasional personal interest story as well. Who am I? A very busy mother of two (J-6 and K-3), a graduate student (yikes for sure!), a happily married wife- yet a lousy housewife, a full time fourth grade teacher, and I guess now, a blogger.
Today in class we began our unit on prime and composite numbers. I love, love, love anchor charts, so while I was planning the unit, I scoured Pinterest to find a cute anchor chart that would serve us well in this area. In order to understand prime and composite, my students need an understanding of factors and multiples. Remember when your third grade teacher told you that you HAD to memorize your times tables? She wasn't kidding! Here is a peek at what the anchor charts looked like.
Does this look familiar? And, check out that ninja...he was certainly a challenge, but I am proud of how it turned out. I had my kids make the same charts in their math journal. I have mixed thoughts on that, but I did it today anyway. Here is hoping that they will have this image engrained in their memory for a while. Our biggest roadblock was that they STILL don't know their multiplication tables. We definitely have a lot of room for improvement in that area.
