The maths lesson was going well this morning. We’d set up Pictochat, were looking at our 3 times tables to decide how many gates on the downhill skiing had been missed to incur a penalty of 18 seconds, 15 seconds, etc. I was just sorting out the charger for one child when I heard a “Miss” from behind me. “Just a moment,” said I, “I’m just setting this up.” Turned around to find child looking rather worried – “I’m going to be sick, Miss” – and she promptly was, having waited very politely for me to finish sorting out the charger. That threw out the planning somewhat!
Once we’d sorted her out and our lovely caretaker came and cleaned up, we were able to get back to our written methods for column subtraction. The whole class input was curtailed somewhat. But we had used pictochat to do lots of practising yesterday, which had obviously helped as there were only 2 pupils choosing mental strategies and only 2 that had not used the exchange method. Without the evidence from last year’s cohort to hand, this does seem better than when the strategy has been used before - a definite tick in the box for pictochat.
Literacy saw us continuing with our stories – writing the build up, dilemma and resolution today. All based on the characters and setting that the children had been looking at on Mario and Sonic at the Winter Olympics.
We have a few visitors in school over the next 2 days, so I told the children that we would only be needing the DSs tomorrow (Thursday), then they could take them home. To which one response was, “But you said it was going to be a DS WEEK, not a DS week less a day!”
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