Week Ending 2/7/20

We've finished another week of February and we have one week left till February break!

Important information:

• The 100th day is next Tuesday!  Please be sure to have your child bring in their 100 items in the brown paper bag so we can't see them.  They also need to bring in their guessing sheet so they can share their clues with the class.  
• Friday is Valentine's Day and we'll be sharing valentines with each other.  If your child is bringing in valentines, please be sure they have one for every child in the class.  Also, food is not allowed to be passed out.  If any food is brought in, it will be sent home and not handed out. 
• If you have any cleaning wipes or tissues you'd like to donate, we'd love them!
• Conference sign up is here:  Spring Conference Sign Up

3, 2, 1 things we've done this week...

3 Grace Lin books we've read are The Ugly Vegetables, Dim Sum for Everyone, and Fortune Cookies Fortunes.  We have started learning about Grace Lin, her life, and why she writes children's books.  Here's a link to her website and you can browse at home: Grace Lin's Website .

2 math activities we worked on were collecting date on how many teeth students in Ms. Bowen's class have lost and then sharing what we noticed about the data.  We have been focusing on what they've noticed beyond, "One student lost 4 teeth.", and noticing information such as "2 more students lost 4 teeth than 3 teeth."  Thinking about what the data is showing us helps us become better critical thinkers.   Check out how we represented out teeth data below!

While at my math workshop last week, we learned how to easily send families math games to play!  

We played this math game last week about sorting by different attributes.  You can play this week if you want!

Yekktis Math Game

1 Stretch Your Mind math activity we worked on was Domino Window.  We talked a lot about perseverance!  These activities are a good exercise in how to think differently and out of the box.  They can be a struggle for those kids that are quick computation thinkers and they can be a quick activity for those that struggle with the computation.  Moving forward this year we'll be doing a lot more of these that will lend themselves to different mathematical strengths in the classroom.  

Here's a picture below! 

 

 

Week Ending 1/31

We're moving on to February!  Seems like January was a long month but we accomplished SO much!

Important information:

• Thursday, February 6, is an early release day with dismissal at 12:30.  
• February vacation is the week of February 17th.  
• If you have any wipes, tissues, or paper towels you'd like to donate, please send them our way!

3, 2, 1 things we've worked on this past week...

3 math activities we worked on were creating bar graphs to show what we learned about our classmates, sort information about our favorite weekend activities to organize and represent the data clearly to others, and we investigated line plots.  This coming week, we'll collect data about how many teeth we've lost and decide with our group how we should show the data and what we've learned.  

2 read aloud we read were A Story, A Story and Anansi & the Talking Melon.  We finished up our trickster tale unit by reading trickster tales and identifying who the trickster was, the problem and solution of the stories, and more importantly, characteristics of the trickster.    

1 writing workshop piece we're working on is our writing about Mexico.  Students have chosen three topics to research and write the most important facts and ideas they've learned.  Right now we're still in the early stages, but I hope to have them ready for you by conferences!