New Math Groups!

Now that our class has Daily 5 under control, we started working on math groups!

The plan is to do Daily 5 four days a week and do Math Groups every Thursday afternoon.

Playing Number Grabber

Our class practiced our teen totals with partners by playing Number Grabber on the smart board. In this game, while the rest of the class closes their eyes, one student erases one number and says, "Open your eyes for a big surprise."  The class then opens their eyes and raises their hand to tell which partner or total has been erased. We did this earlier in the year with totals less than ten. Now we are practicing with teen totals.

Valentine's Day Party

We had a fantastic time celebrating Valentine's Day in our classroom! The kids got to practice Olympic Ski Jumping and the Ski Slalom on the Wii Fit Board. They got to do Candy Heart Math with graphs, tallies, and sorting. We played Valentines BINGO and made a tasty snack together. 

The class LOVED having our Parent Helpers stop in for the afternoon! 

Introducing... Miss Eliza Smith!

Miss Eliza joined our classroom for the second semester. She comes from the high school to help a couple times a week! The kids LOVE having her! She is SUCH a GREAT help!! 

PAWS Card Reward

Our entire class has earned 25 paw cards! Our reward was eating our lunch in our classroom!

Math Game

This week we practiced understanding the tens and ones place by playing a game with a partner.

More 100th Day of School

On our 100th Day of School we got to build with 100 cups and make a design with 100 pattern blocks! 

Safari - August 2013

All of a sudden the animals escaped from our room! 

We had to find our way around Madison while looking for our lost animals!

 Maddie spotted the tiger!

  Blake and Morgan found the elephant hiding in the office!

  Edu saw the monkey first!

  Heather found the elephant!

 Our excited explorers, Veronica, Mabricio, and Ronaldo saw the lion!

  Carter and Morgan couldn't believe that big lion was able to sneak outside!

 How did the monkey get in the tree?!

 Vinny spotted the monkey!

We had a successful safari and all the animals were returned safely!