Global Play Day, 100th Day of School and More!

We had a busy week this week, including an early release day, the 100th day of school, Buddy coming in to sing with us AND Global Play Day!  It was a fun change of pace and a great way to spend a Friday.  Reminder, we go outside in all types of weather.  Please send in snowpants, boots, hats and gloves or mittens everyday.  I do have a few extra things, but we have been needing more than what I have.

 Learning highlights from the week:

 Math-  First graders have begun to solve missing addend problems.  Example:  Sam had 6 marbles in a jar.  Sally gave him some more and now Sam has 11 marbles.  How many marbles did Sally give him?  Students have talked about how to set up this type of problem in an equation ( 6 + _ = 11) and next week we’ll discuss how this can be turned into a subtraction equation.  

Second graders continued to build their understanding of place value through 100 by drawing out Place Value blocks, writing out the number of 100’s, 10’s and 1’s and then writing the numbers in expanded form.  

Example:  329 is the same as     

Is the same as 3 hundreds, 2 tens and 9 ones

Is the same as 300+20+9

Reading-  We will be wrapping up our non-fiction reading unit in the next 2 weeks.  We also continue to work on our decoding strategies including consonant blends, VCe syllables (AKA Magic E), and R controlled syllables.  Students are reading nonfiction texts in their book groups. 

Writing-  We are working on our animal research books.  Each student selected an animal and is writing details all about that animal.  

Mindfulness-  Our theme for the month of February is Kindness.  Kindness to self and kindness to others.  Today during our all school morning meeting we read the book Jake the Growling Dog.  A story about kindness and friendship,