The Willie Joke Update
Today I overheard Quincey say something to Willie. Willie responded by saying "It's not Willie...Call me Big Willie." Quincey was surprised to hear this come out of Willie's mouth. Quincey didn't say any penis jokes for the rest of the period. Willie's strategy worked, and I didn't even think of that. Yeaaaaaa!
The kids were more involved than ever today. They are starting to come out of their shells, I think. We worked on fractions of land using Starbursts to represent a 1 mile by 1 mile chunk. 4 people started off with 4 different oddly shaped pieces of land. Then Mr. Lemon bought half of Mrs. Strawberry's land. The kids exchanged colors of Starbursts to represent the new ownship of land. They wrote write fraction problems to represent the exchange. It worked wonders. 5 people even came up to the overhead and shared their answers with strategies. I couldn't stop smiling!
I don't want to leave them! Next week is my last week there!