Tuesday, October 6, 2015

Things That Have Been Happening

In math, we have been focusing on learning about teen numbers; what they are, how to write, represent, compare and order them. Teen numbers can be tricky.  Often times children will reverse the digits (51 for 15), so we are spending quite a bit of time trying to solidify this idea of a teen is a ten and some more. Fortunately, they are catching on quite nicely. During our math lesson, students begin with number talks, then we work on a main lesson followed by menu lessons.  Menu lessons are activities that are centered around skills (practice from past work), games (based on current work), a problem solving activity and math journals. Students really seem to enjoy this work because they get to choice which activity they want to go to.  There are have-tos that need to be completed during the week.

We continue to build our bank of good reading habits during our literacy time.  Today, students were introduced to their personal book bins. They selected 12 books for their book bin. They will spend a week with those books, taking sneak peeks, rereading, smoothing out their voices, reading more carefully and doing something at the end (retelling, rereading a favorite part, rereading the whole book or think back over the parts).

Friday we had a neat lesson on ecosystems.  Thanks to Mrs. Kittell for coming in to teach us about that.  If you check out our FB page, you will find pictures there of the lesson.

We just emptied another jar of PAWScards.  As a small celebration, the students voted on chewing gum.  I will look to pick up sugar free mint gum. Mint helps with the focus. So if we're going to chew, we might as well get some benefit from it. Some students shared they can't chew gum, so I will respect that and try and find a different alternative for them.  Students also voted on a school wide celebration. We're getting close! The majority of the class wanted a dance party! (Yay....I like to dance so their choice made my heart happy. :-)  )

Just as a reminder book orders are due tomorrow if you wanted to order books and fundraisers should be returned by Thursday since we have no school on Friday (inservice).

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