It was also "Paint the Town Red" day to support the United Way and as you can see, my students take these theme days very, very seriously!
Check out our Fun Friday pics! (click here)
November 29, 2014
Snow Bear Art!
It was also "Paint the Town Red" day to support the United Way and as you can see, my students take these theme days very, very seriously!
Check out our Fun Friday pics! (click here)
November 26, 2014
Let's have some fun!
Parents, we had so much fun practicing our ordinal numbers today, that I promised the kids I'd create a few extra for the blog.
Here are three bonus problems for the kids to solve. They should have their own little character cut-outs in their Zippy.
The videos are not the greatest of quality and I'm not sure why. Hopefully they will still be enjoyed by the kids.
Here are three bonus problems for the kids to solve. They should have their own little character cut-outs in their Zippy.
The videos are not the greatest of quality and I'm not sure why. Hopefully they will still be enjoyed by the kids.
November 25, 2014
Partner problem-solving!
To help the boys and girls work on their "explain your thinking" area of their problem-solving, we did some partner work yesterday.
It is a fairly simple problem from Unit 1, but the focus was on "how do you know you're right?" (that's often the tricky part of the problem!).
After giving the kids ten or so minutes to complete the problem, we looked at each other's work on the Smartboard, while each set of partners explained their work. I
It was a great learning opportunity and now that everyone is more familiar with classroom expectations, routines and some problem solving strategies, we can explore more problem solving situations such as this one...only we're takin' the level of difficulty up a notch or two! ;)
It is a fairly simple problem from Unit 1, but the focus was on "how do you know you're right?" (that's often the tricky part of the problem!).
After giving the kids ten or so minutes to complete the problem, we looked at each other's work on the Smartboard, while each set of partners explained their work. I
It was a great learning opportunity and now that everyone is more familiar with classroom expectations, routines and some problem solving strategies, we can explore more problem solving situations such as this one...only we're takin' the level of difficulty up a notch or two! ;)
Happy Like Soccer
The boys and girls have now all received their feedback from their Reading Response Letter for Swindle.
We're moving on to our next assignment, which is a paragraph about an event or gift that made us happy.
Students are expected to use the feedback from their Swindle letter and implement it in this new assignment.
We'll be reading a story called Happy Like Soccer by Maribeth Boelts shortly, and before we even start reading the text, we're going to fire up our own prior knowledge. The boys and girls will be connected to this story before we even begin reading!
We're moving on to our next assignment, which is a paragraph about an event or gift that made us happy.
Students are expected to use the feedback from their Swindle letter and implement it in this new assignment.
We'll be reading a story called Happy Like Soccer by Maribeth Boelts shortly, and before we even start reading the text, we're going to fire up our own prior knowledge. The boys and girls will be connected to this story before we even begin reading!
On their checklist, the boys and girls are expected to write specifically about how they've used their Swindle feedback to improve this paragraph.
I'm also asking students to focus on the 5Ws to be certain they have included sufficient detail in their writing.
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