MAC as in "classroom" not "& cheese"

My second placement....

a "MAC" classroom.

MAC stands for Multiple Angle Classroom. Our classroom on paper has 24 students consisting of 3rd and 4th graders. However, we are conjoined with another 3rd/4th MAC class. In a day, I teach over 40 different students.

3rd grade Math
3/4 Writer's workshop with all 40+ kids at once
Social Studies for 3rd and 4th.

Getting to understand this set-up was hard. I didn't really know what was going on when it happened. From my first day at this placement, I was teaching the full load... aka- everything was going on around me.

Now that I have been there for two weeks, I have a much better hold on things. There are still a few students who's names I am not quite sure about. I still have to look at a students to decide if they are a 3rd or 4th grader.

I still miss my big kids but I am positive that these kids will wow me just as the others did.