Today we had a great morning. We did two lengthy reading
tests that the boys and girls did wonderful on. Then we did a few
activites that the kids worked through at their own pace; they worked on
a pen pal letter to their secret pals they will be writing to all year.
They will meet them at the end of the year on a field trip! They also
worked on coming up with words that begin with certain letters
(depending which board they picked- i.e A-apple, ant, animal, etc). They
had time to get unfinished work done before they could play a new math
game called BUMP.
After lunch they had indoor recess. Unfortunately, this did
not go so well. I had several student reports of a very loud classroom
with boys and girls not following the rules we had laid out. We talked
about it as a class, and decided together what would be a fair
consequence. They felt that having quiet snack today (instead of playing
games or talking) along with taking away two turtle time minutes from
everyone would be the most fair.
We had a great math lesson where we learned about partner
houses. We discussed doubles and fair shares (the same thing). We
touched on how letters are sometimes used to stand for numbers ( 9+1 =
m+n). Studies have shown that even young children can understand and use
variables to show general expressions and equations.
We had our first set of MAP testing in the computer lounge.
Then we finished up math and did a worksheet activity before playing
BUMP. In social studies, we reviewed urban, suburb, and rural. We talked
more about communities.
We ended the day with PE!
(My pictures aren't loading today, so more tomorrow :) )