Thursday ended up being quite a busy day. I had a meeting about using our Elluminate classroom in a similar fashion as the brick and mortar building. Then, I reviewed with the students Adding and Subtracting Fractions with Uncommon Denominators. Finally, the day ended with conferences with some parents. I was so exhausted that I didn't get a chance to post.
In our meeting, they really reinforced how we need to make sure we have things set up just like in a brick and mortar building. They even provided some examples. I know now I have to get some things set up, but quite a few of them I already incorporate in my room.
The math lesson was a huge success. It was more of a review of what we covered this week. In fact, I did notice several students who have come to all the sessions this week. We reviewed the steps and then I provded practice problems for them to work out on the board. They love working on the whiteboard. Some of the students made minor calculation errors, but this provided a wonderful opportunity to point out how we can use these as a learning opportunity. As I was going through the problem, I would gently point out where an error has occured. In the end, I asked the student if going through this helped and received quite a few smiley faces. :-). I was also greeted in the chat window with several messages saying "Hugs for the Teacher".
Although it was a packed day, I couldn't help but smile from receiving my virtual "hugs". What a great group I had on Thursday.
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