Sorry for not posting...

With conferences approaching....I haven't had as much free time to put these amazing pictures up! SORRY!

We love to play cops. We designate 10 kiddos to be cops. They have a snap word and as the 'drivers' drive by....they have to read a snap word. If they can't read it, the cops send them straight back to the parking lot!

Cason....the cop. :)

We have been measuring for awhile now. Here is our table with items that are longer than our space sticks. WHOA! They thought this was pretty neat. They couldn't believe I would let them mess up the room. Haha.

Our shorter table!

So today was a BIG day! We've been working with unifix cubes and whiteboards to think through simple story problems. Right now we're doing problems such as these.....(so you can do some at home!) We'll progress to trickier problems later. For the past few weeks we've been learning to explain our thinking and listen to each other. Sometimes we don't agree with something we've seen and we have to explain why. (I ask why a LOT)

 

Well, today we had unifix cubes available if we thought we needed this 'just right tool' to solve the problem. I also let them work with a partner. We only got about 4 minutes to solve the problem. I repeated the problem a lot so they could think about the math involved. When they solved it, they were really thinking about what the problem stated to prove their solutions. It was AWESOME!

 

Miss Dunker had 3 cookies. Then she ate 1. How many cookies does Miss Dunker have left? 
2 hermit crabs crawled on the beach. Then 5 more hermit crabs joined them. How many hermit crabs are on the beach altogether?

Back to measuring. We are finding things shorter and longer than our sticks.