We played a brain builder called Triple T with a Twist. The Triple T stands for Think, Turn, Tell, a way to share ideas with partners where they think of their answers, then turn and tell their partners. The twist in this brain builder is that the other partner must remember what their partner shared and be able to share the answer with the class. This brain builder requires students to listen and focus their attention on their partner so they will remember what they are saying.
Next, we talked about a girl named Sita, who is teaching her classmates how to do a math problem. In the photo, the students are all listening to Sita and being respectful. Students used Think, Turn, Tell to share how they could tell the other students were paying attention. We shared the answers as a group, and then they used Think, Turn, Tell to share what they do that shows that they are listening.
For the rest of the lesson, students did "Show What You Know," where they form groups with other students and either write a poem, song, skit or story, or draw a picture that represents what they learned in class that day. Students presented their creations to the class.
