The best part of having students for 2 to 3 years is that the older students learn how to demonstrate activities, and to support their younger classmates understand material. In this way the older students re-learn and solidify their understanding across the curriculum. This week there was a demonstration of “What is Under the Rug?” a game in which ten unit blocks (1’s) are counted out and then some are hidden under the rug. If 4 are shown, students make guesses about what is underneath. They are getting very skilled with equations that equal ten! The student then played the same game using 10’s, 100’s, 1,000’s!

Literacy

The students in LE are taking full advantage of all the literacy options! In the photos above you can see students reading and doing all sorts of vocabulary cards including butterfly, bunny, solar system, woodland animals, deep sea creatures, leaf shapes, and the students had a great time with “label the body” cards. The class made lots of thoughtful and creative extensions such as drawing different kinds of bunnies, writing the names down from the cards, and identifying leaf shapes in our classroom. One way to help our literacy program at school is to read aloud to your child each and every night, and tell stories at every chance you get!

Math

We have been doing lots of place value activities, addition and subtraction, and small motor development by molding numbers with Wikki sticks, using Unifix cubes making combinations 1-20, building cubes from least to greatest, and trying a new kind of dice race adding two dice together using colorful patterns!

Projects

The students favorite time of day continues to be project time when groups of 2-5 students work together across the classroom playing doctor, making paper crafts, creating Magnatile marble raceways, and block towers!!

Happy Weekend!!

Ms. Jen, Ms, Alaza, and Ms. Sarah