Our first official closed reading!

These students rocked our first closed reading session! So proud of them. They are such fantastic readers!

Practicing even and odd..

With each step we are reminded which numbers are odd and even...one..odd..two..even..three..odd...you get the idea. The students like it. B-)

Problem solving station!

Part of my effort to keep students challenged and to bring more and more "life" to math. :-)

Summarize our morning.

Our target this week was "I can summarize a text, event or movie".

Bringing life to math..

Last night I went to a conference and learned about bringing math to life. So it gave me some great ideas for what to do today before our pizza party.. The students graphed our pizza choices, figured out how many pizzas we need to order based on that one large pizza only feeds 4 people. They did a great job! They also calculated the two digit math to make sure they were charging us the correct price. Very cool!

Summarizing Groundhog's Day!

Today for reading buddies we learned all about ground hogs and Groundhog's Day. Did you know that when groundhogs make their burrows they dig up 700 pounds of dirt? Believe it or not... That was one of the cool facts we learned today.  Students also learned the history behind Groundhogs Day that it all started in Pennsylvania , brought to us from Europe. Students then predicted whether or not they thought Phil the groundhog would see his shadow on February 2nd. On February 2nd we will see who made the correct prediction and who did not. Then of course to bring it all back to our comprehension strategy, we also worked on summarizing our morning with our reading buddies. The students did a great job we first rain brainstormed what were the big ideas of our morning and how could we summarize it in one or two sentences. The students decided that to summarize our morning we could simply state that with our reading buddies we learned all about groundhogs and Groundhog Day.

Twister....

During math centers, students have the opportunity to visit twister center. At this center students are asked to place their hand or foot on a place value that has ones tens or hundreds. The students have had a blast and it helps reinforce understanding place value and what the numbers represent.