November 9, 2015
Parent-Teacher conferences are only 2 weeks away. I will get the opportunity to sit in on conferences with my co-op and I am really looking forward to this. There are a few "assessments" she wants to get done before conferences to have to show to parents. Today she gave me the first one to begin administering. This assessment was to test students' counting abilities. I have them count by 1s, 2s, 5s, and 10s up to 120. Similarly to a running record in reading, I marked the numbers they got correct, the numbers they omitted, the numbers they said incorrectly and the self corrections they made.
I was surprised with how many students struggled with counting by 2s. A decent amount of them could only get to 12 and were lost after that. I was even more surprised with the challenges 5s and 10s presented. Money concepts are covered twice a day every single day in their classroom; during morning meeting and math warm up. Counting by 5s is obviously done when counting nickels, and counting by 10s is done when counting dimes. A lot of students seem to have little difficulty when counting their money. However, it was evident that they could not make the connection when rote counting for me during the assessment. An example of how one of the students counted to ten was; 10, 17, 16, 15, 88, 120. This student is one of our highest in reading but has shown signs of struggling in math all year. She is someone that if her struggles are not addressed early will most likely be pushed into higher math groups just because of how strong of a reader she is. The math difficulty will likely get overlooked. This definitely happens more often than it should. It is important to know that students can have strengths in one subject and weaknesses in another.
Tomorrow I will be finishing the assessments and I am curious to see how the rest of the class will perform.
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