Today when I went into class, I asked Kristen about both exceptional students and English learners, because teaching both requires most of the same things. She said that they both have modified spelling tests, a lot of visual and audio lessons to help them remember and learn better, and they have more one-on-one time when they need it. With the exceptional students, they can have aids come into the class to help them, a push in, or they can go into a separate class with other exceptional students and work in that type of class room setting, a pull out.
For English learning students, they really focus on vocab words, acting out what they mean, drawing what they mean, looking at context clues to figure out the meaning of a word. Their spelling tests are modified to what words they are learning as well.
The word that this is portraying is transform.
After I talked to Kristen about this, she told the class about an activity that they will be doing for the rest of the year. They have "colonial money" that they can earn by doing things that they are supposed to do or if they are behaving, or they can lose money when they do things they aren't supposed to do. At the end of the activity they will be able to use the money they earn for a colonial store.
I think they will really enjoy this assignment. Tomorrow, although I will not be there, all of the fifth graders will be doing a colonial day where they have different rotations and learn different things or play games, like marbles and cat's cradle, and then they will enjoy ginger snap cookies and apple cider :) I hope they have a fun time with that.
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