During our conversations about how authors bring stories to life for readers we discussed that the make their characters talk. This lead our conversation to - how do we know characters are talking? Quotation marks! We spent some time today diving into some of our mentor texts we have been using to learn how to write personal narratives and the kid found examples of authors using quotation marks. We then discovered what quotation marks look like and how they "scoop" up the words a character is saying out loud.
In math we continue to work on addition within 20 as a class. The kids explored this week how there are several ways to add different numbers together to get to the same sum. They worked with snap cube trains to discover these multiple ways and charted out their findings. (Ex: 3+3 = 6, 2+4 = 6, 5+1 = 6) Their chart is coming home today. On the back though are directions to the awesome game we played today called I Spy! This game reinforces addition sentences with the sum of 20 or lower. Feel free to play it at home!
Last I wanted to share a math routine of ours called What's The Math? I post a picture of something in our world and we talked about all the possible ways math is shown in the picture. Today's picture was of the tree outside my house. Some questions they asked were: How old is the tree? How tall is the tree? How wide are the leaves? How many leaves have red? How many dead leaves are on the ground? Now....today I also posed a real world math problem...I showed them that I had earned my second free coffee from Tim Horton's. We talked about how it took me purchasing 6 coffees to get my free one. So I asked them how many coffees had I bought to get 2 free coffees. They quickly threw out 6+6=12!
Math is ALL around us! :)
In math we continue to work on addition within 20 as a class. The kids explored this week how there are several ways to add different numbers together to get to the same sum. They worked with snap cube trains to discover these multiple ways and charted out their findings. (Ex: 3+3 = 6, 2+4 = 6, 5+1 = 6) Their chart is coming home today. On the back though are directions to the awesome game we played today called I Spy! This game reinforces addition sentences with the sum of 20 or lower. Feel free to play it at home!
Last I wanted to share a math routine of ours called What's The Math? I post a picture of something in our world and we talked about all the possible ways math is shown in the picture. Today's picture was of the tree outside my house. Some questions they asked were: How old is the tree? How tall is the tree? How wide are the leaves? How many leaves have red? How many dead leaves are on the ground? Now....today I also posed a real world math problem...I showed them that I had earned my second free coffee from Tim Horton's. We talked about how it took me purchasing 6 coffees to get my free one. So I asked them how many coffees had I bought to get 2 free coffees. They quickly threw out 6+6=12!
Math is ALL around us! :)