Fun and Learning
9/14/2018
We are very fortunate to be having great weather at the moment but fall is definitely coming and winter is on its way. From our classroom we have a great view of many tall and different kinds of trees. We have been able to watch and look at the leaves change colour and start to fall. This week, we decided to take advantage of the weather and go out and collect leaves of different sizes, shapes and colors. The class showed great collaboration in finding as many as they could and had great fun together, encouraging each other to explore the woods. After that in the classroom we built presses and using wax paper put our leaves in. It was a little bit tricky and fiddly but we managed! We are going to leave them over the weekend and return to them next week. Hopefully they turn out good! In math we have been working hard on missing number problems. Identifying the numbers we know, where we start and what number we have to finish on. As Well as continually practicing our number bonds to 10. Mastery over these will mean success in many other areas of math. Number bonds help students see that numbers can be "broken" into pieces to make computation easier (decomposing/composing). Number bonds help students recognize the relationships between numbers. We have also continued practicing counting in 1s, 2s, 5s and 10s. Lastly we celebrated a birthday in our class today with a giant Pinata! Everyone was really excited and had a fantastic time smacking it with the stick! It took awhile but with the help of the 4th/5th class we finally managed to crack it open. Great fun all around. Comments are closed.
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Hali TuomiMs. Tuomi has over five years experience in ASD, where she taught first and fifth grade classrooms. An avid skier, Ms. Tuomi is a Magna Cum Laude graduate of Alaska Pacific University’s Bachelor of Arts in K-8 Education. Archives
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