Decorating Writing Notebooks Decorating our writing notebooks was so much fun! I enjoyed looking at all the photos and learning much about each student. The kiddos worked really hard and their notebooks look great! I'm sure the their personalized photos and decorations will inspire lots of writing throughout the year. Thanks for sending in decorations! Cup Stacking Challenges with Mrs. Lipe's Class 100 Face Challenge Can you create a face using cuisenaire rods with a value of 100? Students worked with a partner to make faces worth 100. Each color rod represents a different value, so lots of mental math was used to build different faces. Figure Me Out As another getting to know you activity, we created math posters with equations to figure out numbers in our lives. For example, you might have to subtract to determine how many people in your family or divide to figure out the number of siblings someone has. I was impressed with some of the challenging math problems that the kiddos came up with. Me Museums It was loads of fun learning about each other during our gallery walk to see all the "Me Museums". Everyone did a great job writing about each item and explaining why the item was important, special, or what it represented. I LOVED reading all of their cards! The kiddos were really interested in each others museums and they asked each other lots of questions. We discovered there are many friends in the class with similar interests. Shopping for Books Our reading workshop is in full swing now that everyone has books in their book box ready to read. There was sooo much excitement in the room about all the books and the kiddos were eager to find a spot and read. I quickly discovered that most of the class has a lot of stamina when reading. I think we read for about 35 minutes without interruption. That warmed my teacher heart! Making Paper Chains Mrs. Lipe's class partnered up with us for a paper chain challenge. The goal was to make the longest paper chain from one piece of paper. The kiddos quickly found a partner and worked cooperatively to construct their chains. It was interesting to see all the different strategies for cutting the paper. There were some pretty long chains! So much fun! Hundreds Challenge Throughout the year, students will often work with partners or small groups. The expectation during group work is that everyone participates, listens to others, and stays engaged on the task. To teach the class what working with a group should look like and sound like, I gave them a hundreds challenge, (finding the numbers 1-100 scattered on a page). Each person in the group had to count in order and highlight the next number when it was their turn. I snapped photos so that the kiddos could see the engagement and collaboration taking place during the activity. The class really loved this! They were begging for a 4th round, but we were out of time. Working on Real-World Relationships in a Table During math, students interpreted tables involving multiplication in order to determine the relationship. We also worked on a gumball problem using an online website called Desmos. At the end of the of the activity, students wrote their own table showing the relationship between the number of gumballs and the value. Touch and Talk Vocabulary I introduced our science unit on matter using a touch and talk vocabulary sheet. The idea is to get students talking and thinking about science terms & concepts we will use during our unit.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
Archives
November 2019
Mrs. Swyers3rd Grade Teacher |