Another Successful Day

Suprisingly, this day--a MONDAY--turned out to be a good one. This morning, I quickly constructed a math test to assess multiplication of 2- through 4-digit factors by a 1-digit factor. Amazingly, they did well on this test! I had 8 100's, 4 B's, 3 D's, and 3 F's. Okay, so I'm not so happy about the bottom 6, but the top 12 rocked! Two of the 100's belonged to students who go to Title 1 Math--I'm so proud of them!

After the test, we did 2 math lessons which is what one does when one is a chapter behind the pacing guide. One might think that I could keep up with the pacing guide, since I was one of 2 fourth grade teachers PAID to make it for our district (21 elementary schools), but it turns out that I can't. An overloaded pacing guide is what one gets when one tries to cram 10 months of math into 8 and a half months of instruction, so I sincerely doubt anyone can. And, please don't tell anyone outside of my building that I helped make it--I already get enough ribbing about it from my colleagues, who are sometimes mean to me! ;)

I love November--we get so many days off that it's the month besides May that I enjoy the most. Students are off tomorrow for election day; we have a staff development day. (I don't know what we're electing--not senator nor governor nor congressman--guess I'll show up at the voting precinct and find out tomorrow.) We're off next Monday for Veterans' Day and we get the 25th-27th off for Thanksgiving. Yay, November!