Weblog Update: Slightly Off Kilter #2302, 2303, 2304, 2305, 2306, 2307

[Vicki Brown]

Recent updates to Slightly Off Kilter weblog:

"Substitute Teaching Vignettes #1"
Posted on 20161205 by Vicki Brown
In category: Trivial Pursuits

(I have begun substitute teaching)

November, 2016

From 12:30 to 12:40, I did yard duty - watching the kids at recess. My
goodness, they're active!

1) A ball went over the fence and one girl figured out how to put her
hand through the (wide) chain link grasp the ball (they're not
well-inflated) and work it up to the top. I stood behind her and
supervised because she was up on the concrete and I did not want her
to fall, but with me there, I thought it would be OK. (She did NOT
want help.)

2) One girl spent the entire time walking in a circle on what looks
like a dodgeball grid, reading her book. Around and around.

3) One boy took it upon himself to find things that need to go to Lost
& Found; I suggested he ask the other children if the jacket he found
belonged to one of them. ...

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http://cfcl.com/blogs/vlb/weblog/archives/002302.html

"Substitute Teaching Vignettes #2"
Posted on 20161207 by Vicki Brown
In category: Trivial Pursuits

(I have begun substitute teaching)

December 2016

First grade

I only have the first graders for half an hour before they'll go to
lunch, They're going to do Prodigy Math on their iPads for that time.
One girl, Ella, is a budding SJ temperament in pint-sized form. She
takes me in hand, making sure that I know what the rules are and how
things work. The class doesn't need a sub; they have Ella. ...

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http://cfcl.com/blogs/vlb/weblog/archives/002303.html

"Substitute Teaching Vignettes #3"
Posted on 20161213 by Vicki Brown
In category: Trivial Pursuits

4th grade. Math.

Students are learning multiplication with "partial products". I know
this concept as well but I use parentheses.

14 x 37 = (10 + 4) x (30 + 7)

They use diagrams. ...

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http://cfcl.com/blogs/vlb/weblog/archives/002304.html

"Substitute Teaching Vignettes #4"
Posted on 20161214 by Vicki Brown
In category: Trivial Pursuits

Fourth First grade

This was.... a surprise. I was expecting 4th grade.

Me (at the school office): I'm your 4th grade sub.
Woman: I didn't know either of them was out today. Mr Jones or Mr.
Smith?
Me: Ms. Black?
Woman: She teaches 1st grade.
Me: (hoookay then) ...

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http://cfcl.com/blogs/vlb/weblog/archives/002305.html

"Diary of a Substitute Teacher"
Posted on 20161216 by Vicki Brown
In category: Trivial Pursuits

December 15, 2016

Subbing in middle school (7th grade) "Tech" classes. The students are
creating simple web sites.

Hey, I know this stuff! (As opposed to the Aztecs & Mayans or 4th
grade "math with discs".)

I told today's classes that I've been building web sites & coding HTML
by hand since 1994/95. Eyebrows go up.

Yes, I am older than the WWW. ...

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http://cfcl.com/blogs/vlb/weblog/archives/002306.html

"Substitute Teaching Vignettes #5"
Posted on 20161220 by Vicki Brown
In category: Trivial Pursuits

6th grade math - part 1

0.375 + 5/8

Guys. There's a trick.
What's an eighth?
(silence)
What's a quarter?
(Clown: 25 cents!)
Me, writes .25 on the board.
What's half of 25?
kid: 15?
Me: close. What's half of 25?
What if I have a pie (draws circle) and I cut it into quarters
(draws) and then I cut one of those pieces in half? How much of
the pie is that?
Kid: 1/6?

(aargh) ...

Read this entry on the web at:
http://cfcl.com/blogs/vlb/weblog/archives/002307.html