My team members and I have continued our work to find and curate math games and activities for what we hope to be more effective, engaging, organized but more academically flexible, and (in some cases) technological math centers. We spent a fair amount of time collecting the hands-on materials that we will use with students for the first couple months of school. We still have work to do, which will include preparing our Kindergarteners for being successful during this self-directed time. This can take time.
As sort of a side project, we have added a twitter feed to our blogs with the intention of using it to report out a few quick tidbits/conversation starters about each day for parents. I am anxious to start doing this as a closing circle with my students (what a great built-in shared writing experience too). I think it will help to hold me accountable for what I believe to be a very important (yet too often rushed) part of our day.
Karen, sorry I lost track of this project. I should be able to update you on the access to MacBooks at Saturday's class.
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