Learning and doing

I posed a question to my class of 24 Year 1 students..."What do you need to learn in Maths this week?" Their first answers were the games they liked playing e.g. I need to learn the dominoes. I explained that the dominoes are more of a tool to learn other things in maths. Students then identified the number patterns on the dominoes and counting as their learning goals as they could use the dominoes for this (they love building with the dominoes).

This exercise led to another question...How do we know what we know? Good thing it's a week of assessments...an opportunity to have learning conversations with students about what they know and decide together the next learning to focus on.