Happy Friday!

I have to share some pictures of some very hard workers today. We wrote our numbers and looked at which numbers were still hard for us (reversals). Here are some friends that came in, on their own, and specifically practiced those numbers. (Not everyone has reversals anymore). I really feel like our students are truly believing that they should know what is hard for them, and work on it! YAY! I hope this trait serves them well in their future years :) 

When we work on 2D shapes...we talk about the lines (straight or curvy), the number of sides and points (or vertices). 

I tried to tape our play today, but right then--my battery died :( It was very fun! 

Happy Thursday!!!

Miss Vermeulen has done some fantastic lessons about dental health and the tooth fairy...so we made beautiful tooth fairies today! 

Jaxon's family made it today to celebrate his 6th birthday. Guess what else? Jaxon is a leap year baby! Try explaining that to a bunch of 5 and 6 year olds :) Haha. My first attempt ever. Not sure it really worked out so well.

They brought a much loved book for his celebration today....Where the Wild Things Are! Thank you :) 

Miss Vermeulen has been doing our shared reading and this week she is reading a Jill Eggleton poem with us. We will illustrate it on Friday! 

Today we started JA (Junior Achievement). We will be learning about money with Dawn Bly--our JA teacher. She did a great job yesterday. Here are some snapshots of her 'meeting and greeting' each student. I tried to get a pic of everyone.

Happy, happy Wednesday!!!

During our math problem solving, we took a close look at our 100 charts again. We practiced counting by 1st, by 10s and figuring out how the numbers are laid out on the chart. 

Noah started at 23 and counted by 10s!!! 

Jace started at 37 and counted by 10s!!!! 

Kristen started at 18 and counted by 10s! Amazing :) A lot of kiddos think you can only count by 10s if you start with 10. 

We had a great math problem today. It was I have 2 shapes in my basket. Together, there are 7 sides in all. What shapes could be in my basket.
Right now, we are working on 2-dimensional shapes. We've really spent a lot of time exploring with geoboards, iPads, pattern block cards, anchor charts and math problems. They're talking a lot about the corners/point/vertices, types of lines and sides of each shape. 

Natalee figured this problem out right away and solved it! She even added a sentence :) 

Here is a snapshot of Alivia sharing her problem and solution with the class. She did a GREAT job too. She told us how she started with a hexagon first, but that it would have 6 sides and so that wouldn't work--because there is no shape with 1 side. SO amazing!!! 

Then we proceeded to share with a partner near us.

We are continuing to read the hilarious book, Little Red Cowboy Hat and we made some cowgirls today! 

Happy Tuesday!!!

Yesterday, we played a new math game called Fill the Hexagons! We used triangles, a rhombus shape, and trapezoids.

This week we are LOVING a story called, Little Red Cowboy Hat. Ask your child what fairy tale it reminds him or her of. That's called a text-to-text connection!!! 

Miss Vermeulen kicked off our week with a lesson on the tooth fairy. This book is hilarious :) :) Then we started writing our own stories about teeth and the tooth fairy. We will work on them all week! 

We read, Color Zoo today and made shapes out of yarn. I was SO impressed with their shapes. I asked all of them about their shapes. I had them tell me about the vertices (points), line (straight or curvy) and how many sides it had....they did a GREAT job. These are good questions to ask if they work on shapes at home! 

We even had some hexagons and trapezoids! WOW! 

Oh....back to our cowgirl book. We are talking more in depth about the main character in a story. Today we talked about Little Red. I asked the kids to describe her on the inside. This would be a great sample discussion you can have when you read together at home :)