Right now I am 8 school days away from Thanksgiving break so my creative juices are really not flowing too well. I am just plum tired and sometimes feel out of ideas to get my students engaged or even awake.
For my algebra class, this tends to be a little harder. Probability and Statistics is much richer content to make interesting. So after the exponent test Wednesday in algebra, I planned two days of review "activities" for them to all do. These were all activities I had wanted to try but hadn't taken the time to yet. I was hoping too that they would be a break from the norm and reenergize them a bit too.
This morning on the way to school, I thought "why did I do this to myself?" I knew it would require more work to try this and I was fearful they would complain and not appreciate it (which does happen).
Today though, I am thankful because they did not complain! They actually all worked! They listened! They said they were happy not to start a new chapter and just review some! They got excited to play BINGO, talk about some application problems, and design something out of linear lines! Now, by NO means were these very neat and in depth activities, but I think just the change of routine and pace helped them and me. We will see how tomorrow goes but I was very thankful doing this change today was appreciated by my class!
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