My mom gave me great advice about teaching.
She reminded me that despite the fact that the material will be old to me, it's new to my students and I have to keep it fun and fresh.
For everyone involved!
So I took her advice to heart!
Following the midterm, my students spent two weeks bent over government issued workbooks drilling through material that was no more fun than a broken record. After the dull drag of that had finished, and my students were mine again, we finally got back to normal lessons.
First up for my 6th graders was 'Who's calling, please?'. A carbon-copy review of last year's 'Is Peter there?' lesson.
So to keep things fun and fresh, I borrowed a game idea that I had seen at another teacher's open class - Dominos!
The teacher who I got the idea from had made a fancier version, full of colors and pictures and all that jazz. Mine… not so much.
But the students still liked it!
And really that's all the matters.
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