Split Class Math Vocabulary Word Wall

How can you create a word wall for math vocabulary when each grade is working on different math content?

How can you find all the wall space in your classroom?

My suggestion is to think a bit outside the box and have your students create personal file folder word walls. This folder could cover math concepts for one or more units.

 Each grade level would be working on their own personal file folder, so wall space 

would not be an issue. 

This word wall file folder would not be thrown away, but stored in a students math folder for future use on student homework assignments or center activities.

These folders could be used as you review math concepts for an upcoming standardized test too.

What do you think about this idea? Share you thinking in the comments area of this blog.

Smiles,

Deborah

 

Creating a Small Group/Teacher Guided Area Without a Special Table

Not every teacher has room in their classroom to set up a separate small group teaching station. I love this idea that I saw in my journeys through many classrooms in our district that uses the students desks to become her “kidney shaped table.” The portable rolling cart becomes her teaching station for the small group.

Notice that this U-Shaped area is located near the whiteboard in the front of the room.  Each student has a desk, but during certain times of the day the students rotate to different stations.  A rule of the class is that you respect the owner of the desk you are sitting at and DO NOT use items from their desk.

By the way this was a 5^th/6^th Multigrade Classroom.