Partner Reading, Fact Families and Published Authors!

In reading we are focusing on retelling the important parts the stories we are reading.  Reading and talking about the important parts of our stories with our partners is a great way to practice this.

 In math we are working with numbers in the teens and playing a game called how many am I hiding.   Playing this game is helpful to then be able to write and figure out equations with missing addends.

We also learned about fact families.  All fact families have something in common...they have the same numbers.  We made fact families and put them in their house.

 In writing we are finishing up our small moments unit.  We chose a book that we wanted to publish and have in our classroom library.  We fancy and fixed up the story, shared it with the class and it is now part of our classroom library!

October Fun!

In writers workshop we did a museum walk and enjoyed reading all our classmates small moment stories that they have been working on.  We gave them compliments on their writing also!

Science

We  went outside and collected different leaves  from the playground.  We talked about all the different shapes of the leaves we found and the variation of the different leaves.

 Math

We continue to work on strategies for addition and subrtaction.  We worked with our part part mats and practiced how we can think addition when we are solving a subrtaction problem.  We also used our ten frames to come up with different combinations to make 10.  Knowing our combinations that make 10 help us with our addition.

Here we are playing Make Ten memory

September Happenings

Here is a peek into whats happening in room 28.

In writers workshop we are working on small moment stories.  We are writing about things that happen in our lives and things we do.  We learned what a watermelon story is and how to find a seed story within the watermelon story.  We also have a writing partner and help each other make our writing even better!

 We have been enjoying using the maker space tubs.  It has been nice to see friends working together and communicating to make and create.

 In Science we are learning about plants and what they need to grow.  We certainly have some green thumbs in this class!  We planted our lawns and have watched them grow.  We observed and recorded what we saw in our lawn and then we got to mow our lawn.  We will watch to see what happens now.

Here are the lawns after mowing!

 In math we are practicing our addition facts and learning efficient strategies for adding.  We have played games to help us learn our doubles facts.