Lessons With Coffee

It is Sunday again...which means it is time for me to link up with  Mrs. Laffin's Laughings for A Peek At My Week! AND...Success IN Secondary with 4mula Fun! So here it goes!  Week Four.  This week we start officially teaching 6th grade standards!  The beginning of my week is a little boring but that is because I am making up Friday from last week. Monday-prequiz Tuesday -day2 of iPad boot Camp Wednesday-Multiples LCM Thrusday - Factors trees Friday - GCF That will take us into GCF on Monday of next week!!! I have not heard anything about my social studies class yet...but I will update you as soon as I know. Here we go...Lesson Plans! This is one of my favorite units.  Last year we started the year with an algebra strand and found out quickly that our students are not successful at manipulating fractions and decimals yet...so how can we expect them to be able to solve for them yet? This year we decided to spe...

I want desperately to post about my ISN's which are going smashingly with both my 6th graders and my 7th graders! But I do not have pictures or anything yet....I will get on that ASAP.   BUT. I want to share today about my Frayer Model dilemma and solution. I love FM's.  They rock my vocabulary world.  What I did not love was the "non example" section.  Often I could think of a non example but had a hard time verbalizing it to students.  OR if I let them come up with a "non example" they almost always had a miss conception about the word.  So I changed it to PROVE IT/DRAW IT. This has worked SO MUCH BETTER than it did last year.  It really helps my kiddos who are struggling with the abstract thoughts and put's it very concretely, pictorially and allows them that kinesthetic avenue of modeling and drawing it out.  SO I wanted to share it with you. Here is a picture of what it looks like: You can download them here:...