Week of May 13th, 2013

We are building a farm on our bulletin board.  Our farm has horses, cows, pigs, and chicken.  You should check it out!  We will be adding more things that a farm needs and some vegetable and fruit gardens!  Here are some students creating our animals. 

Students listened to Go Away, Big Green Monster! without seeing the pictures.  They had to use the describing words to help them make a picture of the monster.  This was to help students to use describing words in their new narrative writing pieces.  Students are writing fictional stories about an animal that has a problem.

Math Centers

Students tried out Try-A-Tiles at one of the math centers this week.  Students use tiles with the numbers 0 through 9 and must find a place for them on their board.  The boards work on different skills such as ordering numbers, comparing numbers, addition, and subtraction.  This center requires perseverance in order to solve the puzzles!  Students worked on Telling Time and Zoom on the Ipads.  Students at the game center played Sum Swamp and Minus Maze.

These students are hard at work at their Daily 5 Centers.

During math today, students created 3-D structures and had to turn them into 2-D pictures.

We did not have new Word Wall words this week.  We are busy reviewing all of the words we have learned this year!

Week of May 6th, 2013

We started a new math unit called Blocks and Boxes.  We started off the unit with a scavenger hunt!  Students had to match 3-D shapes up with their "footprints".  We discussed 3 of the attributes that 3-D shapes can have.  Those are corners, sides, and edges.

We read Tops and Bottoms by Janet Stevens.  We discussed and wrote about if we thought the rabbits were being fair.  Students had to use proof from the book and make a connection.

Math Centers

Students at the Ipads worked on Math LinkUp and Base Ten Fun.  Students at the BrightLink played 100 Number Grid and Shark Numbers.  Students with Ms. Henault worked on story problems and making equivalent equations.

Our Word Wall words were friend and month.

Week of May 3rd, 2013

Here we are doing a Brain Break or J.A.M. on the BrightLink.  Here are some two of the new videos we have done.

We had some extra recess on Thursday as a celebration for getting all our Paws Points.  It was beautiful outside!

We learned 2 new games this week.  They are called Tens Plus and Roll Tens.  Tens Plus helps students to understand equivalent equations.  Roll Tens helps student to count larger numbers in an efficient way.  It also helps students to understand place value.

Math Centers

Students worked on Math Link Up and Mathmateer on the Ipads.  Students at the game center played Hermit Crab's Home and Crab Apple Tollway.  These games helped with addition skills, subtraction skills, and solving story problems.  Students worked with me on a game called Sum What.  This game helps students think of equivalent equations and work on different math facts.

We started a new read aloud books this week.  The books is Charlotte's Web.  This book goes along with our Farming Unit.

Our Word Wall words this week were does and over.

Week of April 15th, 2013

We have been working on different story problems that involve counting by 2's, 5's, and 10's.  Students must also make an equation to match their thinking.

Look at how much our bean plants have grown!  The first grade scientists have been doing some excellent observations.

Can you tell which plant we grew in the light and which plant we grew in the dark?

We read the book Too Loud Lily by Sophie Laguna, and students discussed and wrote about if they thought it was acceptable for her to be so loud.  They had to use proof from the text to back up their thinking, and they had to make a personal connection.

Math Centers

Students at the Ipad center worked on Math Link Up and Zoom.  Students at the Problem Box center worked on writing addition, subtraction, and combination story problems.  They then had to solve them in their Math Journals.  Students who worked with me, were working on fact families and solving for an unknown addend.  For example, 2+_=3+3.

Our Word Wall words this week were say, says, and try.

Tuesday's Whole School Morning Meeting

Our class will be teaching a J.A.M. at Whole School Morning Meeting.  As a class we came up with actions to go with each part of the song Go Bananas!  Here is a video of the song.

Week of April 8th, 2013

We have been busy observing and writing about our seeds in our Science Journals!  They have started to sprout, so we were able to plant them.

Mrs. Jop came to visit us again!  We are so lucky!  This time she helped us make circle books.  We used them to show the life cycle of a plant.  They came out beautifully.  Next week, we will be sharing our books with Mrs. Baer's class, and teaching them about the life cycle of a plant.

Today, we played Addition Quizmo.  This is just like bingo, and it helps us work on our addition facts!

Math Centers

When students visited Ms. Henault, they reviewed coins and played Money Bingo.  Students on the Ipads worked on two apps called Coins and Zoom.  Students at the Problem Box Center worked on writing and solving combination problems.  An example of this is, "I have 10 crayons.  Some are red.  Some are blue.  How many could I have of each?"  With this story problem students must think of all of the combinations that equal 10.  Mr. Bouchard taught us an app on Thursday called Math Link Up.  This helps students practice solving for two missing addends  (__+__=10).  This is similar to the combination problems. Math Link Up is a free app!

Our new read a loud book is Bunnicula by Deborah and James Howe.  Ask your first grader all about it!

Our Word Wall words are who, where, and my.

Week of April 1st, 2013

A group of fourth graders came in with Mr. Bouchard to ask us questions about riding bikes and helmets.  

Students practiced the app Math Duel which they learned last week.  Two students use one Ipad, and answer addition math facts as fast as they can.

Math Centers

At the Ipads, students continued to work on the Base Ten Fun app and Telling Time app.  Some students are working on telling time to the hour, and others are working on telling time to the half hour.  At the game center, students played a game called Time Out.  Students must match cards with analog times to cards with digital times.  With Ms. Henault, each group worked on different skills.  Students worked on money, combination crayon problems, and adding double digit numbers.

Our Word Wall words this week were come, down, and none.