Fantastic Friday!!!

This week when we read the clues about our mystery reader we found that the clues worked for two mothers!  It was a big debate who was coming.  After a few minutes we heard a knock on our door and Cedric's mom walked in :).  Thanks mystery readers!

 

 

We love our math interactive notebooks!  On Friday we got to add some number bond work, addition sentences, as well as domino math in it!  They loved doing the domino math game.  Every group got 4 dominoes and wrote number sentences to match the number of dots on the domino. 

Happy Birthday Dylan!

Happy Birthday Dylan!!!

 

They inhaled the donuts so quickly that by the time we sang and I got the camera out they were gone :)!!!

 

 

We've been working hard on sequencing our stories!  They are finding key details, putting them in order, then writing about it. 

 

We are also loving creating number bonds and number sentences (equations) through math stories!  They are rocking this and really loving it.  Next week they are going to get to make their own math stories :)

 

The crayon factory...

So I'm not sure how many of you were told about the crayon factory and the boxes we got but it was a big deal in our classroom! 

 

The story went I went to visit a crayon factory and they gave me 16 boxes of crayons.*  The only problem was that their machines weren't working and they thought some of the boxes didn't have the right amount of crayons in them (24).  Each child had a big job of counting their crayons, writing the number on their board, and then drawing that number of crayons.  During the grand crayon count the factory texted me and said they had made a mistake and really the machine was fine and everyone had 24.  I told them anyone who didn't get 24 as their number to go back and recount :). 

 

*No crayon factories were visited during this activity!  Only supplies that you guys amazingly provided were used :)

 

They loved this and it was a great way to help review one to one correspondence, paying attention when counting, as well as writing numbers.

 

 

When we were done we worked with dice, counters, and our 10 frames to play some math games :)

Telling time bump!

We've had lots of fun working on time this week!  We played a bump game where we got to move all around the classroom identifying if the time on the card matched the time written.  They LOVED all the action and every time "bump" was called out they thought it was hysterical that they got to move to another seat.  Overall this was an exciting and fun way to practice telling time!

 

Animal LIfe Cycles...

We had a terrific Tuesday!  We reviewed how to write the time.  We discussed where the hour and minutes go around the colon.  Then we practiced writing the time our practice clock said it was!

 

 

 

We also continued learning about animals today.  Everyone got in groups and made their own life cycles of the animal they chose!  They are hanging in the hallway for everyone to enjoy.  We did chickens, snakes, butterflies, turtles, flamingos, and a few others!  They did a FANTASTIC job and I'm very proud of all the effort they put forth to make sure it was level 5 wow work :).  Please take a second at some point to come see what they did.

 

Working on Telling Time...

To start our Monday out with some fun we decided to be a bit crafty in a mathematical way :).  Everyone had an opportunity to make their own clock.  Once they were done we got to use them to play a "what time is it" game!  The clocks they made work (moving hands) so once they decided what time their friends clock said they set their clock to the same time.  It was great practice and we all had a great time.