10/16

We woke up this morning and the water was still off.

In English today I went over the mid-term with the students.  The review seemed to go well, and the students were better able to answer the follow-up questions I gave them.  I just wish I could have been teaching them all the things that were on the mid-term so they were more prepared, but I am just teaching what I have been told to from the curriculum book. 

Before I started my math lesson we went over one of the questions on the exam.  I plan to go over one question each day for the rest of my time here instead of going over all of it at one time.  Today I reviewed counting by twos, by doing a count on the board and then playing buzz.  In math today we started learning about capacity-more specifically as the textbook suggests, what can hold more.  The kids and I had some fun with this as I had the students hypothesize by looking at two containers, which would hold more, and then actually testing it.  They loved getting out of their seats and counting with me and recording what we found.  After doing a few real life examples, the students worked on the exercise that went along with the lesson from their book, and ALL the students were able to answer ALL the questions!  I was pleased.  The real life examples definitely assisted their understanding. 

Daphine measuring how much water the pitcher holds

We came home tonight and the water was still off!  We were prepared though because we brought 2 jerrycans home from school since they still had water.  So it looks like it’s going to be another night with a cold shower!