Writing

There has been an explosion of writing across the classroom!

Reading

We are coming to the end of the My Father’s Dragon series and the students made their versions of the dragon children who were rescued from the cave by their brother Boris! They learned about color mixing in the process!

Math

We continue to explore Place Value making comparisons between the 100, 10, and 1 blocks and dollars, dimes and pennies. The students priced muffins and figured out how much each one could cost and the kinds of coins needed to put inside the muffin tins! The activity was very popular. It was so popular that some of the students made a pizza shop during Project Time!

Project Time

Having missed out on so much hands-on cooperative learning last year, the students really benefit from painting, building, pretending and even setting up project tables for their classmates!

Literacy

This week we read the book, Cherries and Cherry Pits, about a young girl that loves to draw and tell stories while she draws! This brought great excitement about storytelling and story writing. We also took story dictation down from a student and acted it out as a class in the style of Vivian Paley, a famous Kindergarten teacher, and writer. We have noticed a steady increase in excitement about writing and fluency!

Math

The stories that have been coming home about playing a new game that involves betting are true! We have been working on the automaticity of math facts 1-10 and 1-20 using a version of Blackjack. Students try and get card combinations on or close to 10 (or 20 for the older students) but not to go over… or else they lose and their partner gets the “pot”. Other than learning math facts, the students are learning how to take turns, play fair, and be gracious winners and losers. This is tricky for some of us!!

Project Time

Halloween crafts, raceways and parking lots, musical numbers, and Magnatiles have been super popular!