One of our first entries in our Interactive Notebook was Number Forms. We made a simple foldable for this review entry. I had already taught number forms, and we were doing this entry as a review before the test. I am glad I did it as a review, because, as the students were working on this entry, I could really see that a number of students had been struggling with word form and expanded form. Doing this activity helped them, and it inspired me to add number words to our spelling list for the next week, as many of students had trouble with spelling for word form.
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| Inside the Teacher Foldable |
These pictures are of the teacher input page. We all did the same number in our foldable. I tried to choose a number that had some difficult words to spell. For example, I chose "forty-two thousand", because many students had been spelling "forty" with a "u," and many students had been spelling "thousand" incorrectly.
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| Outside the Teacher Foldable |
Here are some pictures of the student foldables and reflection page. I really love reading the students' reflections, because that is how I can truly tell if they have internalized the lesson. Every time we add an entry, I help them out by giving them ideas of what I would like to see in their reflections. We are collaboratively making a list of "good reflection ideas." So far on the list are extra examples, real-world word problems, cartoons, poems, summaries, and questions. I am constantly on the look-out for new ideas of ways they can share what they have learned in their reflections.
