Pizza

I miss pizza.  I missed pizza a lot when I was in Seattle.  It used to be a Friday treat when I was growing up in NY.  A nice thin crispy slice of cheese pizza.  Yum.  In Seattle, you have to buy a whole pie, and they never can get it quite right.  I thought when I moved to Boston, I'd be able to eat good pizza again, but I haven't had one good slice in Boston since I moved.  I need to do some exploring.  I know a great place in Harvard Square but the only time I'm there is with B, and he's not usually in the mood for pizza.  Since he doesn't have many food restrictions and I'm so ridiculously picky, I can't really force him to come to pizza.  But one of these days I really need a good slice of pizza.  Pizza pizza.  Yum.

 

The lesson went pretty well.  The class wasn't as far ahead as the teacher thought they would be, so I couldn't teach what I had planned.  I made up a new lesson during lunch about "1 more, 1 less, and equal" but the language I needed to use was "1 more, 1 fewer, and as many."  They really seemed to get it when we sat in a circle playing with cubes and solving problems.  They could even come up to the whiteboard and figure some out.  But when we got to the worksheets, they suddenly couldn't figure out what "fewer" and "as many" meant.  Those worksheets are so confusing!  It stinks that we need to use them.  I learned that the word "fewer" is a new word for a lot of first graders.  "1 less" is easier.  They just take one away and re-count.  "As many" also doesn't make any sense at all to them.  Does it need to?  I don't think so.  I think as long as they understand the concept of equal and 2 piles being the same, then that's fine.  The vocabulary will come later.  It's hard for them to complete worksheets when they have trouble reading the word problems since they're just learning to read too.  I think it's a fun challenge.  Next time I'm going to do the originally planned math games.