Maria Ricchio
2nd grade
Shoesmith
This week I have gotten to see a lot more math lessons in the classroom. Not only are students given math worksheets to complete every night, we also gave our students a math assessment to see what topics we need to go over. From that point, my mentor and I put students into groups based on their levels. Something I noticed was that we had a wide range of math abilities. This experience showed me that there is not going to be just one type of instruction in math this year. There will definitely need to be a lot of one-on-one time and small group work. My mentor and I will have to sit down and figure how we will arrange our lessons in order to fill in these gaps. We assessed them on graph reading, time, even and odd numbers, word problems, counting coins, and number patterns. After going through each assessment carefully with my mentor, I noticed that many students struggled with counting money the most. They were unaware of how much the different coins were worth therefore couldn't identify a penny as being 1 cent, a dime being 10 cents, and so on. Therefore, my mentor and I know we will REALLY have to work on that with them. Another thing I found very interesting is that many students who struggled in literacy were very strong in math. One of my students with Autism had one of the best scores! It's amazing to see certain student's strengths and weaknesses come out. As I went through the assessments, I frequently came across a right
answer but saw the number was written backwards, so that shows how all subjects are
literacy based and that they are all connected. Many students in my class enjoy math so I would really like to take advantage of that and make interesting/fun lessons for them this year and push them into higher level tasks.
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