Happy Valentine's Day

A great big Thanks to the Parent Helpers today!!

Math

Some of the math games we have been playing 

Racing Bears 

Double Compare 

One More, One Fewer+/-

Story Problems

We worked on using a Tens Frame to develop quick images of quantities up to 10. This helps with basic facts as students will begin to see that 5+3=8, or 5+2=7 with some automaticity. We will be doing Tile Quick images next week.

Quick Images

Math Game Six Tiles In All

We tried to make as many different arrangements of six

Toss the Chips

      This game focuses on decomposing numbers in different ways

 Developing and analyzing visual images for quantities up to 10

                                           Using Numbers to record how many

We created Plus Pond Problems on paper and on the computer

Pond Problems

The following Pond Problems are created by Friday stay day students. If you would like to log in to our class account click here. You can find the parent help sheet here.

D...is for Diego

Writing Workshop this Week

At writing this week we talked about how writers use words to help readers visualize what is happening in the text.  We started the lessons by pretending to be outside on the playground making images in our minds. I encouraged students to use their 5 senses. We shared with a partner and the large group too.

 I Knew It Was Winter
The students came to the rug and we brainstormed one noun to go after the number word 

 

On different days we went back and took a picture in our mind of what the snowballs were doing? We also added a "when", "where" or "how". Thursday stay day kids illustrated the final piece!
We made a Valentine one too!

On this page we originally had floating in the store window and we talked about how putting a name of the store really gives the reader a better picture in their minds. 

We took the same poem and created a Valentine Poem. We followed the same steps as before except this time, we are inserting adjectives and other descriptors in different parts. You can see the times we went back and added with different colors.

On Monday, I saw one Valentine Fairy with sparkling wings floating in the air shooting Cupid arrows. 

Eric Carle

We started learning about Eric Carle!! We will be reading books by Eric Carle and learning about some of the creatures he writes about. At the beginning of the week, we read The Very Hungry Caterpillar and read some nonfiction books about butterflies. We have been talking at large group about the difference between fiction and nonfiction.

We noticed that nonfiction books have many photographs.

We labeled the parts of a butterfly.

We created a Circle Map about facts and Interesting things we are learning about butterflies. 

Friendship Hearts

We read this story about animal artists who have many disagreements but eventually become friends!

We made friendship hearts. On your side of the heart you wrote all the things you enjoy, your partner did the same. We weaved our hearts together and wrote at the bottom of the heart what we like to do together.

Spanish

This week we learned the names of vegetables in Spanish!

We read a story and played a music game.

Voice Thread in KC

Last week we learned how to go on Voice Thread and make comments on different threads created by Mrs. Clancy. We had Mrs. Putnam and Mrs. Clancy teach us how to record our comments and save our work. We learned that you can record, type and draw on different threads. We will be sharing Voice Thread with parents on Friday morning at Drop-In. Mrs. Putnam will be helping us on Friday morning too. She is a Technology Specialist for Wellesley Public schools.

Learning About Rosemary

We wrote a list of things we learned about Rosemary Wells! We loved reading her stories!!!

The 100th Day!

A very special thanks to all of the parent helpers we had on Monday!! I had a few kids comment to me that it was the best day ever and they didn't want the day to end!!!

GO PATS!!!!

We are hoping to hear victory music for the announcements on Monday!!!