11/30/2017 0 Comments Planting BrassicaWe started planting Brassica today. We also talked about how seeds germinate. To view a short time lapse of Brassica germination:
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11/30/2017 0 Comments Up to the Challenge?Students faced an immense challenge today: answering the question "how much longer..." We tried asking similar questions such as, "How much taller is Ms. T than the chair? (about three feet). "How much taller is Ms. T than a student?" (about two feet). Today, students were asked to find "how much longer" one fish was from another. Students had four questions like this one and were encouraged to use 1 inch tiles and pictures to help them record their ideas.
Common errors 1. Many students are still trying to answer the question "which is the longest?" So, instead of finding the difference between the two fish, many students are either circling the larger fish or larger number. 2. Some students are adding the two measurements together to find a total. Homework? Practice using this language at home. Devise your own story problems to help your student understand what it means to answer "How many more?" "How much longer? "or "How much shorter?" Measure with real items and units your student can manipulate such as peas, green beans, paper clips, cubes, tiles, etc. You have 2 peas. I have 5 peas. How many more peas do I have than you? My plate is 8 green beans long. Your plate is 5 green beans long. How much longer is my plate than yours? My paper is 6 paper clips long. Your paper is 3 paper clips long. How much shorter is your plate than mine? 11/29/2017 0 Comments Accurate Measuring...Students are learning accurate ways to measure. We realized today what was NOT accurate. For instance, measuring the circumference or the outline of the fish was not necessarily accurate for counting the length of a fish. We realized we needed to put tiles in a straight line to measure the length. We also noticed that tiles needed to be touching, otherwise we could be off by a whole tile! Nice job today!
11/29/2017 0 Comments Crashing Parts Together!Students have learned many ways to "sound out" their words. Students know how to do a slow check, by checking every letter sound, but this can take too long for these big words. For words like "exercising," we want to crash parts together. We started with crashing "ex" together. Then "exer," then "exerci," then we had "exercising." Students know to "try it both ways" too. This means trying the "i" two different ways. Would it make sense to say "i" like "i" in "dig" or "i" in "ice?" Students tried crashing "operation" and then tried finding words to crash in their own books. Nice crashing!
11/29/2017 0 Comments Golf Week!Special teachers collaborated with Ms. S to teach golf this week. We were so lucky to practice our golf swings and use this special equipment. Thanks for coming!
11/28/2017 0 Comments Graduating to Chapter BooksHere is work from a student in our class. She wrote a table of contents for her chapters about math, reading, writing, music, and PE. Students are learning to add details and take about one day to write one chapter. You can read her first chapter for math. "We do math. We do the ten frame. We do writing in our math book. We do writing in our math counting collections book." Tomorrow, she will probably look at her table of contents and decide which chapter will come next. Nice work!
11/28/2017 0 Comments New Science Unit: PLANTS!Today, students wrote what they knew about plants. As a class, we wrote some ideas down such as, "they need sun, water, and soil. They grow from seeds. Flowers can smell good. Carnivorous plants can smell bad to attract bugs. Some students wondered, "how do plants grow?" We talked about how plants need food from the sun. We learned that this process is called photosynthesis. We can't wait to learn more about plants!
11/27/2017 0 Comments Measuring by CubesToday, students learned that items can be measured by units of cubes. Students were encouraged to snap cubes together to make measurements as accurate as possible. We measured pencils, hands, shoes, hall passes, books, folders, name tags, and more. We also decided based on our findings which item was the longest and which item the shortest. Students tracked their ideas in their math notebooks with either words or pictures to go with their numbers.
Some students noticed that measuring by cubes did not always give an exact measurement. To solve this problem, some students either wrote an estimate such as "about 3 cubes" or wrote "3 1/2 cubes." 11/27/2017 0 Comments Last Stop on the Double Decker BusWe wrote our own math stories to celebrate our last week with the Double Decker Bus. "____ students were on the bus. ____ students got off. How many students were left on the bus?" Students also had opportunities to play some of the math games we learned this month with the racks. We sorted bus cards, came up with new ways to arrange passengers on the buses, and we helped our partners.
Next stop - measurement! We will begin by measuring items by increments of blocks, erasers, and tiles. What can you measure at home? 11/27/2017 0 Comments We Love Conferences!Thank you for coming to my conference!
How did students feel about conferences? "I liked leading the conference and sitting in the teacher's chair." "I was a little nervous, but really proud." "I want to do that again!" How did you feel about student-led conferences? |
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