Mrs. Dillard's Linky Party: Classroom Jobs

For the past 2 years, I've had a Hollywood theme.  Everyone had a job.  I was the Executive Producer. ;)

Director: Assisted by running errands, and made sure everyone else did their jobs.
Manager: Calendar and Lunch Count
Leading Man/Lady: Line Leader- The specialists liked this. LOL!
Supporting Actor/Actress: Door Holder
Ushers: Monitors (Girl and Boy)- Could be door holders
Stage Crew: Table Washers (2) and other clean-up
Publicist: Greeter (Also reported news from specials)
Script Supervisor: Checked the attendance board, put the next day's lunch menu on the board, and made sure the attendance board was ready for the next day
Props: Passed out materials (2)(could also handle playground equipment)
Lighting Director: Turned the lights and projector off when we left the room
Stand-in: Substituted when a helper was absent

Other jobs could be: Mixer/Trainer: start the CD for exercise/ lead exercises, Technical Director: Help students get into AR or onto a specific website, and Make-up: make sure absent students have make-up work.

You can see how small my class was.  The header for the jobs board and the job cards came from Teachers Clubhouse.  They have other themes and products.
http://www.teachersclubhouse.com/classroomthemes.htm

Math Work Stations Chapter 7

Reflecting on my past years, I can say that my geometry stations address a variety of geometry goals.  Students sorted real 3D shapes, built designs with pattern blocks, played games where they had to identify and recognize 3D and plane shapes, and made books about shapes.  I need to include symmetry, positional words and geoboards in my stations.  After reading Math Work Stations..., I realize that I should be making sure that students are using the vocabulary.  One way is to create anchor charts with the students. 

A favorite geometry station for my students in the past is making pictures with pattern blocks.  Sometimes it was in the form of a puzzle.  This was a little frustrating for some students, but they felt a sense of accomplishment when they completed a puzzle.  Other activities allowed students to create their own picture.

This activity was found at Fun to Teach and Learn.  We integrated math with one of our reading series stories.  Students had to record how many of each shape they used, and then write an adventure about their robot.

http://sites.google.com/site/fun2teachandlearn/math
Scroll almost to the end.  Under Enrichment Activities is shapes.  You'll see Pattern Block Robot/Robot Response Sheet.

Is It a Condiment Tray or Teaching Tool?

Thanks to Teacher Tipster, I made a run to Dollar Tree. They had the condiment trays featured in the video that Mary at Guided Math shared. http://www.youtube.com/user/teachertipster?feature=mhum#p/u/18/0ch4fTFFgcs

My dice are still at school. I bought 2 trays so that I can still use one in small group and have one at a station.  I'm so glad that I have such awesome Blog Buddies!