Week of September 23rd, 2013

One of the morning jobs is to read the morning message and answer the question on the BrightLink.

We have been working hard on addition story problems in our math books.  We are working on showing our thinking, forming our numbers correctly, and writing an equation to match the story problem.

You may have noticed we switched one of our tables in for four desks.  Everyone will get a chance to sit at a desk this year!

We have started up our Math Menu time this week.  Students are rotating through 3 centers.  Eventually students will pick the center they want to work at that day.  Students played an adding game with a partner, put numbers in order to 100 on the computer, and worked with a ten frame on the ipad.  This is a time when I will get to work with kids in small groups, while other kids are working independently.

Mr. Lane has been teaching us about the Unthikables, and how they can get us off track.  He gave us copies, so we could hang them up in our classroom.

We have some math work already up on our Marvelous Math Work Wall.  These are some great examples of organized math thinking!

We have 3 words up on our Word Wall.  They are a, I, and at.  We will continue adding words to our Word Wall.  These are words that are used a lot, and are sometimes tricky words that don't follow our spelling rules.

In Writing this week, we have started our Writing Workshop. Students are working on writing about things that they know about.