For more information about the math and reading construction centers click the reading and math tabs! It was such a fun-filled and educational day packed with experiential learning! Thanks parents for your support! At the end of the day on Friday we celebrated becoming an official IB PYP school with cookies and a dance party!
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Experiential learning is the process of learning through experience and that is just what we have been doing. In math we applied our learning of "crossing the decade" (28, 29....30) to a real world application. We celebrated two teachers who just crossed over to a decade age/will cross over to a decade age this year! We invited Mrs. Munsell (she was 29 and turned 30 in August) and Mrs. Beacham who will turn 40 this summer to our math mini-lesson. We played a game of bingo where the students had to cover the number that came AFTER the number called. More experiential learning occurred with our mystery reader! She read a book about a community helper...A VETERINARIAN and came dressed as one! She brought the students stuffed dogs, band-aids, stethoscopes to decorate and dog pills (M&Ms). It was really fun for the students to pretend they were vets themselves! For more pictures of this click the social studies tab (: Next week we will be doing even more hands-on learning as we do thematic math and reading stations that allow us to act as construction workers as well! Thank you all so much for volunteering to help out with this and bringing in items! It is going to be AWESOME! I'll make sure to take lots of videos!
The kids have been making awesome connections between our lessons in writing and our lessons in reading! In writing we have been working on writing true stories this week. We went through the process: First, we thought about something that happened to us or something we have done. Then, we practiced telling our stories to each other in a STORYTELLER voice, Next we used pictures and words to tell who, what, and where, Last we added and will continue to add details to our work. We learned that "Once you're done, you've just begun!" There are so many ways to add to your work! Adding to the pictures, adding to the words, adding labels, and adding speech bubbles.
The students have already been transferring their skills of reading their writing in a storyteller voice to reading all books in a similar way. We will continue on working on speech bubbles (and dialogue) next week in writing and reading like a teacher and talking like the characters in reading! We will be doing some fun lessons with puppets to teach this! Speaking of puppets, we did a fun game to practice our counting fluency, skip counting, and decade numbers in math using a ladybug puppet instead of a ball! I haven't blogged about math in a bit. I'll make sure to do that next week! I have pictures to upload but they aren't sending from my phone to my email so I can't upload them yet! :( Once they are sent I will put them up here! Here are some pictures of us writing with and about our stuffed animals on Tuesday! You can see your children reading their all about books on Seesaw! It is an awesome app and a great way to see your students work! If you haven't joined, I highly recommend it (: Also, in addition to our pep rally today (wish I had pics of that but I was leading it!) we were able to help out in the garden today! We did yoga, helped pull the carrots out of the soil, and learned about composting!
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This is my seventh year at HFE. I love teaching, reading, writing, traveling, and sushi Archives
April 2021
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