..another fork in the road

Okay, tonight I have spent a lot of time researching ideas and sites for a presentation about nouns. Then I reread some of the PPP pdf files and realized that the idea had come to me from them. OH MY! So now I am looking at another direction.

I really am wanting something that will work with this grade 4 class. They are a true test as to whether it works or not. After brainstorming with a nursing friend on msn I came up with a few other ideas: she suggested adding and I switched that one to division and then I also keep coming back to the Social Studies Canada Unit. There is lots that can be done there. The only problem is there are already a lot of Canada ppps out there.

So, what I have decided is that I will perhaps try a Canada one for fun and play around with it, and then create a division one. If the Canada one is going well I may stick with it. If I do both then that works well for the Grade 4s, so it is a win win:)

I am excited about the division because I can take digital photos of classroom items and then use the SMART board software to divide the items into groupings. This actually fits in well with the division with remainder unit we do second term.

Since my friend and I brainstormed I have bookmarked some other sites and am ready to go with the other ideas.