Lower Division at FA uses the Responsive Classroom program. Part of this program involves Morning Meeting. The first component of Morning Meeting is picking a greeting, which is chosen by a different student each day. We greet each other in different languages, by our last names, etc. This past week, someone came up with the idea of a having a hand sanitizer greeting. You greet the person next to you, and give them a squirt of hand sanitizer. Maybe we should write to the company and see if they want to publish this greeting in their next book ; )
In other news in our classroom, this week we started a math competition called Target Math. The class has been divided into two teams. Each student has a set of index cards with various calculation problems tailored to the specific skills that he or she is working on. After copying the problem onto graph paper, solving it and having it checked, the students can throw a ball at a "target" - a grid on the whiteboard with each square being worth a various number of points.
This weekly game will continue throughout the school year, and we will add our new weekly points to our previous points. All players will win a prize at the end of the school year, but the winning team will earn a little something extra.
Have a great weekend! ~ Mrs. Lawless
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