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Ontario Math Curriculum Contribution

Grade 11 M Math



UOIT Math Practicum 1

My overall experience was very informative. I saw how my AT began starting her classroom management and structure. She started the year off with the desk in rows; she says she leaves them like that until around the end of October when she will then move them into groups of four. We spent the first day of school making classroom agreements. This was set up by getting the class into groups of four. Each group had to come up with 5 classroom agreements. Things that they thought were fair and necessary. Then two groups combined their ideas and had to narrow it down to 5 agreements again. Then the whole class came together and out of all the ideas 5 had to be chosen. Most of the agreements were very similar and could be combined to narrow it down to 5 classroom agreements. I thought this was a good idea besides the fact that it took almost 2 hours for the class to complete the task. And the task kept getting interrupted by a school wide assembly and recess. I am very much looking forward to going back to placement. And I am excited to begin teaching the class.
 * Students Create Class Agreements (Nadine) **

UOIT Math Practicum 2

**Last day of placement - Nadine**  On my last day of placement my AT had a closing circle as a good buy for me. All the students went around the circle and said one thing that they liked best about having Miss. Long in the classroom. It was such a nice idea and some of the things the students said where so sweet. Some of the things the students said were  - I liked when Miss. Long taught us math, because she walked around the classroom and gave me extra help when I was confused.  - I liked when Miss. Long was our teacher since she always said hi to us in the hallway or outside at recess, it made me feel like she was more than just a teacher.  - I liked when Miss. Long was our gym teacher since she made us get into different teams in a fun way like lining up in order of birthday without speaking.  - I liked when Miss. Long was our teacher because she would jump around at recess trying to stay warm. Made me laugh and I like it when I can laugh at teachers.

 The kids all then gave me a card they made and a flower. It was really cute, and made me realize that even though I was only there for 3 weeks I really made an impact on my students.

In Reading/Writing we are doing a short story unit. For my lesson today I read the book //The Full Belly Bowl// by Jim Aylesworth. The story is about an old man who receives this magic bowl which would multiple anything that you place in the bowl. The first task the students had to complete was I only read the story until the climax, then the students had to write their own falling action and conclusion to the story.

[|The Full Belly Bowl Lesson.docx]

After finishing the rest of the short story another one of the activities I had the students complete with this short story was to write a letter Dear Miss Long, If I had a full belly bowl I would place _ in the bowl because....... I thought I would share some of the response with you since I enjoyed reading them so much “I would place a grande light caramel frappuccino in the bowl because they are my favourite treat but I only get them as a special treat since they are so expensive” “I would put my dog into the bowl, because my dog likes to sleep all the time and if I had two I could play with them one at a time and the other one could sleep” “I would place myself in the full belly bowl. I would do this because then there would be two of me and I would be able to do more than one things at once. For example I could watch TV and do homework at the same time”