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Everyday Mathematics — Smart Board Style!!!
July 27, 2009 | | Leave a Comment
Greetings,
After two weeks of pruning and tweaking I believe I am satisfied with my first attempt at “Smart Boarding” an Everyday Mathematics Unit. I have had grand illusions of one day having all of my Scott Foresman Reading Street and my Everyday Math Units all rolled into snug and interactive Notebook Files for me to catalog away and add and delete as needed from year to year. So far I am 1/30 in Reading Street and now 1/10 in Everyday Math. I believe the toughest job is done now, since I have foundations set in both formats, I can just add and delete to the existing files. Well enough jabbering, onto the Notebook File.
When I first conceptualized this plan in my head I wanted to be able to utilize my Teacher’s Manual without holding the manual all the time, so I thought what if I took the main points I wanted to hit out of each day’s lesson and put it up onto a Notebook Page…Below is what I came up with.
A Table of Contents page with a link to each day’s lesson if you click on the text. Within each lesson at the bottom left hand side you will see an image of a Book. This is your link back to the Table of Contents at any point you would need to navigate back there. There are also links to the T.O.C on the Notebook Pages that will get used daily as part of the daily routine (Weather, Temperature, Days in School, etc.). This allows for easy navigation back to the lesson for the day (whatever it may be).
Here is a look at a common Notebook Page from the Everyday Math Lessons. The lesson number and description will be located at the top of the page and the points of emphasis for that lesson will be located within the box. You can see the T.O.C Link at the bottom left. The coins on the bottom right will take you to…
the “How Many Days in School” Notebook page. With my students I have them daily tell me with coins how many days we have been in school to help reinforce the coin recognition/counting/exchanging skills. You can see I have the T.O.C Link on this page in the top left hand corner
One thing to watch for within the lesson pages is items that I have boxed around in white lines. These items have links to either pages within the Notebook file or to Web sites to reinforce the skills being taught. Also, Math Journal & Home Link pages are linked to their pdf links by just clicking on the text.
Below is some more screen shots from the Notebook File…
Here is a look at the Daily Attendance Chart that I have done for years in the classroom every morning for the first half of the school year.
Tally Mark Charting
Monthly Weather Chart
If you have any questions as to how to work with this particular file, please feel free to contact me.
When I post lessons like this one and in the future I will be then posting the lessons onto my Box.net Share folder that is located at this Box.Net Link and is conveniently placed at the top right hand side of this blog.
Thanks for stopping by,
Bill
