I feel like Mrs. Cunico uses engaged learning in the class everyday. She always has fun games planned that get the students involved and to get them to remember harder things like math, and spelling. She plays this around the world game, were students sit on there desks, and one student starts and goes around the room to each student and they either have to solve a math problem for the math game, or for the spelling they go around and each say a letter to spell the word. If the student wins the math problem game they go to the next student and the student that doesn't win sits down in that desk. Now with the spelling game if they say the correct letter that was next in the spelling word they get to stay sitting on top of there desk, if they said the wrong letter than they sit down in their chairs. Mrs. Cunico even has a cheer or song for most lessons. She has a couple sets of pom-poms that she lets the kids use to recite cheers to remember math rules. Mrs. Cunico is even known to "dress up" for a lesson. I remember one week they were learning about different kind of workers/heros in the community. So while the kids were at recess Mrs. Cunico dressed up as a police officer. and when the kids came in they all just though how cool it was and she gave her lesson that way.
One of the activities that I can remember that Mrs. Cunico could have made more engaging, would be the time she was teaching how to tell time. She had a clock that she could change the time and ask the kids what time it showed. But a way I feel would have made it even more engaging, would be to have had the students make a little clock with paper plates and they could use one of those "do-dads" with the hands attached so they could move the hands, and then Mrs. Cunico could have asked the students to show her a certain time. And then they would have a clock they could work on by themselves.
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