We were mathematicians today looking for math all around us in our classroom environment! While looking for math we recorded our learning and thinking using the Seesaw App. This is an online journal app that allows students to take pictures, videos and make drawings in order to make their thinking and learning more visible. We did a great job learning how to take a picture of the math we saw using the iPad and then we recorded our thoughts. Your child will bring home a letter tomorrow with information on how to access their individual Seesaw journal. We are asking you to help your child to be a mathematician at home as well. They brought home a similar math activity for homework. We are asking that they search for math at home and then return their thinking sheet by Thursday. Thank you for your help in developing our little mathematicians!
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Students in action during math workshop rotations! This week we practiced math facts by sorting crayon facts into the appropriate crayon boxes and lunch foods into the correct lunchbox.
We read the story Interrupting Chicken to help us think more about appropriate classroom behaviors. The chicken was constantly interrupting his dad! After reading the story we sorted different scenarios into either "Respectful Student" or "Interrupting Chicken." The students did a great job. They then began to record an idea from each chart onto their individual paper. These came home for the students to finish if they would like. The conversation (not the recording sheet) was the most important part of this lesson so don't worry if the sheet was not complete when it came home! It was an end of the day activity and we simply ran out of time! We are still working a great deal on the following behaviors: follow directions quickly, talking when the teacher is talking, quick and quiet transitions, and whisper voices. Please help to reinforce these behaviors at home.
The firsties had their hands all over the pattern blocks this week during math workshop. They worked hard to recreate patterns and then recorded their learning by taking pictures on an ipad. Later in the week they used the pattern block template, one of our math "tools" to draw the same patterns. This was a VERY popular station this week!
We spent some time exploring our classroom Ipads with a partner on Friday! We did a great job sharing, taking turns and working to problem solve when we got stuck. We have enough classroom ipads for each pair of students to have their own. The firsties will learn to use Seesaw, Dreambox and reading QR codes in the next few weeks as the Ipads become a part of our daily literacy and math time.
Our first few sessions of Writer's Workshop have been amazing! We began by making a "map of our heart" to show all of the activities and people that are important to us. This helped us to brainstorm all different things that we can write about during our writer's workshop time. Now no one can say, "I don't know what to write" because we have a whole heart full of ideas! The day after creating our heart we got right to work on our writing. During our mini-lesson we learned that writer's THINK, DRAW, LABEL and then WRITE. We watched Mrs. Cowen model how to do this and then we tried. We were very focused and we all did our best. We worked independently to get pictures and words on our paper even when it was hard. We didn't ask the teacher how to spell things, but instead worked to sound out words on our own. At the end of our Writer's Workshop time, we came together as a group and several of our friends shared their fabulous writing with their peers. Great job firsties!!
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