Special Events: Popcorn Day!

On Friday we had popcorn day! We learned our very important popcorn words and the song that goes along with it! We made popcorn together and then sprinkled different seasoning on it. Then we each got to choose which kind we liked the best- we even graphed our results! We had lots of different popcorn word games set up throughout the classroom :) Here are some pictures from our celebration!

General Happenings: Mathematicians at Work!

I was able to capture some learning happening at the math table yesterday. Marko and Adem were working on the math challenge for this week which was "How many ways can you make 10?'. I was excited to see their thinking behind it as this is something we haven't taught yet. Watch to see how they bring their previous knowledge of numbers and composing numbers to this week's challenge using our ten frame (not five frame- whoops!) and our rekenrek (abacus).

Using a five frame is incredibly helpful for students. When either the top or bottom row is full, we know that there are automatically 5, which means we can start counting on from 6 (just like we know we will always have 5 fingers, so we don't need to count them!). When there are only 1 or 2 spaces empty, we can count backwards from 10. This activity brings so much learning to life, including ordinal counting (counting correctly from 1 to 10), subitizing (recognizing small quantities instantly), addition, subtraction... the list goes on!

Can your child make 10 in different ways? Does it always have to be with two groups of numbers?

General Happenings: Weekly Challenges!

This year we've done a bit of rearranging in our classroom. We've turned our Tinker Table into a "Finger Gym" and transformed our science table into a math table. Each table will have weekly challenges that students are encouraged to complete throughout the week.

The Finger Gym is where students will work on fine-motor skills (small muscle movements in hands/dexterity). Here is our challenge this week!

Students have different coloured straw-pieces that they can weave onto string along with some leaves and hole punchers :) 

Here are our previous Finger Gym challenges!

I'm especially excited to introduce our new math table! I felt as though our science table wasn't getting as much use as I had hoped, so I transformed it into a math table! Every Monday we will introduce a new challenge. This is a great way for me to see what students know and where we need to take our learning.

This week's challenge is pretty difficult. I'm excited to see where students take it.

There are 6 ways to compose the number 10 using 2 digits, but more if we use multiple digits!

Here are our previous challenges!

Special Events: Guest Speaker!

Today Anwen and Grayson's mom came in to read us all a story! We listened to "The Pigeon Needs a Bath". Thanks for joining us!

General Happenings: Picture Post!

Hello everyone!

I'm so glad to be able to post on the blog again :) Here are some pictures we've taken lately!

 

 

General Happenings: Jersey's Birthday!

Happy 4th Birthday, Jersey!! :) We hope you had an awesome day!

Special Events: Halloween!

Friday was a very special day; we got to celebrate Halloween! We got to eat a lot of yummy treats and participate in our annual school parade. We had so much fun! :) We hope you enjoyed seeing us in our costumes :D

Happy Halloween from Room 110!!