It's so hard to believe I've been in school a month. I keep pinching myself to see if I'm dreaming but I guess I'm not. I love the beginning of a new year for a lot of reasons.
I redid a lot of my class (again...I know) and have pictures to share but, alas, the camera is at school. I promise I will get them posted before the end of the year. HA!
My permanent Promethean board was installed before school began and da da, da da, da...i'm lovin' it! There's another reason this blog has been neglected. I spend a great deal of time trying to find flipcharts to go with every lesson I do. And let me tell you, that a whole bunch of flipcharts that are free on Promethean Planet leave a LOT to be desired. I haven't paid money for any yet because they are ex.pen.sive! I'm afraid I'll spend a gazillion dollars (almost) and it will be the same crapola as many of the free ones. Anyone bought anything that can vouch for their worthiness? Or do you know of another great resource for flipcharts?
My class is wonderful. I've got 18 students with another possible on the way this week. (I'll get into that in a few.) I'm Whole Brain Teaching them to death! I love it and they seem to, too. I'm going to enjoy it while I can since the class coming up next year is incredibly exhausting.
I have an adorable little guy who had a brain tumor as an infant and requires a lot of special help because of it. Unfortunately we only have a special ed teacher for him for about 20-30 minutes a day. Remember I'm at a private school. Frankly, it isn't enough and I am left to do the rest on my own. The other kids end up helping a lot. Anyone else have that problem?
So now I'm supposed to get a new student who is coming from the public school because the parents are unhappy because their child is a "genius" but not getting anything extra. This means I'll have the largest class in second grade and an extremely special need student, a high maintenance parent and a "genius". Is that fair?
Do you ever feel like you get penalized because you're an effective/good teacher?
Okay, onto the freebie.
I had to make over the "number squeeze" game to fit my theme. I also wanted it to go up to 120 instead of 100. It includes math talk cards. You can grab it by clicking on the preview below.
Leave me a comment if you have any advice or answers to my questions.
1. Are the Promethean Planet "for sale" flipcharts worth it?
2. Where else do you find good flipcharts?
3. Do you get stuck doing your "own thing" with special needs students?
4. Do you ever feel like you get penalized because you are good at what you do?
