Hurray Hurray!
The Count to the New Year has begun! We get to look back at the things we've done We read, we wrote, we did math too! Just think of all the things that we learned to do What will the new year have in store? What new things will we explore? Happy holidays everyone! 2019 will be a lot of fun!
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We met our buddy readers this week! They are in Mrs. Child's fourth grade class! My students wrote them letters and they wrote back! So now they are not only our buddy readers but our pen pals too!!! I wish I knew why my pictures are uploading in sideways and wont let me flip them argh! But anyways, the partnership with this class has been so amazing already! Our class party is Monday at the end of the day, thank you to those parents who have volunteered to plan and run it! On Thursday we get to watch the Holiday Chorus Concert/Sing-a-long in the morning from 8:15-9:00 and there is no school on Friday!
Reminder- The holiday traditions project is due on December 17th. This information came home in Thursday folders.
-During math this week, we continued our new math unit on comparing and decomposing numbers. Students worked on decomposing numbers between 11-19, showing those numbers in a ten frame, writing an equation, and explaining how many tens and ones are in those numbers. For instance, in the number 15, there is one ten and 5 ones and the equation would be 10+5=15 or 15=10+5. For the number 12, there is one 10 and 2 ones and the equation would be 10+2=12 or 12=10+2. When students master this, they can work on numbers in the 20’s. For example, the different number sentences for 23 would be 10+10+3=23, 23=10+10+3, 20+3=23, and 23=20+3. Students made their own day/night decomposing match game this week and we had a place value boot camp drill to help us practice the concept of tens and ones using base ten blocks! I was the drill sergeant and called out "I dont know what I've been told, tens are tall and ones are small, first you count up all the tens and then the babies at the end." Then I called out a teen number and they did ten jumping jacks and however many ones were left over they did that many push ups! I gave all the students dog tags with a teen number on it that they were able to decompose independently. We had a lot of fun! Next week I will also introduce students to pennies. We will discuss that a penny equals one cent and ten pennies equal a dime. We will then work on determining how many tens and ones are in an amount of pennies. The sorting, counting, and ordering groups standard is in this unit as well. What you can do at home: Have students sort silverware, coins, beads, etc. by color, shape or size. Students can then count how many are in each group and put the groups in order from least to greatest amount or greatest to least amount. Here is a fun website to practice this standard: http://www.abcya.com/counting_sorting_comparing.htm Here are our math standards for our comparing numbers and decomposing teen numbers unit: MGSEK.NBT.1Compose and decompose numbers from 11 to 19 into ten ones and some further ones to understand that these numbers are composed of ten ones and one, two, three, four, five, six , seven, eight, or nine ones, e.g., by using objects or drawings, and record each composition or decomposition by a drawing or equation (e.g., 18 = 10 + 8) MGSEK.CC.1 Count to 100 by ones and by tens. MGSEK.CC.2 Count forward beginning from a given number within the known sequence (instead of having to begin at 1). MGSEK.CC.3 Write numbers from 0 to 20. Represent a number of objects with a written numeral 0- 20 (with 0 representing a count of no objects). MGSEK.CC.6 Identify whether the number of objects in one group is greater than, less than, or equal to the number of objects in another group, e.g., by using matching and counting strategies. (Limit category counts to be less than or equal to 10) MGSEK.CC.7 Compare two numbers between 1 and 10 presented as written numerals. Classify objects and count the number of objects in each category. MGSEK.MD.3 Classify objects into given categories; count the numbers of objects in each category and sort the categories by count. (Limit category counts to be less than or equal to 10) In writer’s workshop this week students took their informational writing post assessment. They knew to include: neat pictures/diagrams with labels and details and transition words. What you can do at home: have students practice sounding out words and writing down the sounds they hear on paper and draw pictures with details and label their pictures. You can also remind students that when writing, the first letter in a sentence is uppercase and the rest is lower case, there are finger spaces between words, and periods at the end of sentences. We will continue to work on this in class. - During reading this week and next week, students have been or will be assessed on their reading levels. We will also review our “Super Powers.” Students will work on building their reading stamina independently and work on IRead. This week we discussed what traditions are. We talked about how people celebrate Kwanzaa, Hannukkah, and Christmas. |
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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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