Math Lesson #1

We had our first Math lesson this afternoon. We're reviewing just some basic number sense skills that I am sure will come very easy to the boys and girls. 

We're reviewing and practicing the following: 

• when we add, our numbers grow
• when we subtract, our numbers shrink
• constructing numbers using Base-Ten-Blocks 
• how can we use a hundreds chart to help us with addition and subtraction? 
• what patterns do we see on a hundreds chart?
• what's an ordinal number?

The boys and girls will also learn about our routines and procedures for working with glue and scissors. 

We're going to make a "Number Sense Folder" as part of our learning, which allows me to teach the classroom expectations for Art and other times when we'll need to make a mess to create. 

Here we are working away on our folders. I think my students and I are a match made in heaven because I figured this activity would be a big ol' mess of paper and glue and it wasn't. I thought for sure there'd be all kinds of bits of paper on the floor at the end of the day. 

No, no, no! 

In fact, my room is tidier now, at the end of the day than it was at the beginning! 

Sigh. Ten months with a group of polite, friendly, funny kids who dislike mess as much as I do! 

Winkflash Photo Albums

I shared the password to our online photo albums today with the boys and girls, and I'll repeat it tomorrow in case they forgot. 

If you know the password, I would like to invite you to have a look at the many albums I've assembled over the years. As you'll see, the children have an exciting year ahead!

Mrs. M's Online Ablums (password protected) 

Well hi there!

Are you going to be in my class this year? Well don't wait 'til the first day of school, come on in and have a look around! 

Summer days...drifting away

I hope you've all had a wonderful summer! If you have a child entering my class this year, before the fist day, would you please discuss your child's favourite summer memory? Would you review all the key details so that they are fresh in your child's mind? 

We're going to spend the first day or two talking and writing about our special memories and it can be frustrating for children to not recall details such as the name of the city where you stayed or the special restaurant where you all ate at.