Amazing teamwork. Wow. Can you believe this 'jail' they built? So good!
Today we were practicing reading a story by looking at the pictures. Most first grade reading tests begin with a picture walk. We want to tell the book like a story--name the characters, start with 'one day', connect the pages saying 'and' and 'then.'
Reagan and Jace were SO brave today! They showed the whole class how good they can read a story :)
Our math problem today was: How many different ways can you show 5 with your rekenrek? (a pipe cleaner with 10 beads-5 blue and 5 green). They got into this big discussion about whether there are 6 possible answers or 3. Because if you have 1 blue and 4 green.....some think that's the same at 1 green and 4 blue--so they didn't count it.
Hm. I asked, "Look at these number sentences." I wrote 4+1 and 1+4. I asked, "Do they add up to the same or a different number?" Then many decided that there are only 3 possible ways. Very interesting! I never told them if they were wrong or right. It's better to let them develop their own mathematical understanding and reasoning.
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