Room+6

Margaret Bate

__ROUND ONE__ This week I worked in Room 6 with Margaret. The first day we worked in groups to design and print a set of Habits of Mind posters for the classroom walls. The old ones needed updating and the children didn't have a real connection to them. They planned their poster layout and caption and them took a photo to suit. The finished posters were printed in colour and laminated and are in pride-of-place on the classroom wall.

Also during the week I worked with one of the maths groups to introduce decimals. This carried on daily until the end of term. The children became proficient very quickly and really enjoyed the challenges they faced. I will be following up with them early next term.

__ROUND TWO__ I used a similar format to that of Room 2 where the most able writers and mathematicians were withdrawn to work in the GTR. This enabled Margaret to spend valuable one-on-one time with the rest of the class and look at their work in more detail. It allowed the Maths group the opportunity to be extended in a ‘Mathex’-type situation by answering a variety of word problems that involve Numeracy in real life situations. They made phenomenal progress over the week and really enjoyed the challenge. The writers focused on quality vocabulary and an example of what they wrote can be seen in the display in the library.

Room 6 has some very talented writers and mathematicians! 