Highlights of the Week

We played The Money Exchange Game in math to help us learn to trade ones for tens and tens for hundreds.

Students used a bank of their own money to play this game.

Our writers are using their tool for writing solid  beginnings to remind them of ways they can begin their narrative to grab the reader's attention. 

This group read in their poetry binder.  We read poems together every day as a class to build fluency and vocabulary.  Exposure to reading lots of poems now will help them when we write poems later in the year.

We learned to be reading detectives this week in writing so this student is using a revising/editing pen to add end punctuation.

Lots of proofreading going on here!

This student is practicing her weekly spelling words on her slate.  

On Friday we played two math games to reinforce doubles facts and combinations of 10.

Fishing for 10 is a great way for students to solidify their ability to quickly compute combinations of 10.

In Guidance we had a lesson about how we can show gratitude and "count our blessings."  Kids made great lists of what they are thankful for.

It was an exciting moment when this scientist identified that her mealworm was looking different.  We took turns investigating several mealworms in the class that had gone through a similar change.  

An up close shot of our first pupa.  Students noticed it is slightly curled up, the color has changed and it is not moving practically at all.  What will it be when it changes to the next part of its life cycle??????