Miss Vanderhoof provided lots of art materials for the students to make their own "Wild Thing". They also made a little book to describe their favorite part of the book by Maurice Sendak. When they were finished with their two squares, she stapled them on the bulletin board to make a 1st grade quilt. It's awesome!
Each table of kids created a different part of a leprechaun and this is the final product. Pretty cute! The leprechaun ladders were useful for Shawn O'Casey to climb up to inspect their work and leave a treat. For our math games we worked on many skills: place value, missing addends, measurement, money, graphing, addition, and subtraction.
A. has moved back into the area from Taiwan. He is fluent in Mandarin Chinese. I taught his sister two years ago. We are very excited to have him join our circle of friends.
The children are learning to say many phrases, as well as finger spell their names so they can video some questions to Miss Vanderhoof's friends in the Ogden School for the Deaf.
They are learning to make fair trades to keep adding to $1.oo.
They reach into a sock to pull a coin out. Their partner then tries to match the same coin in their sock without looking. They can do it almost as well as blind people.
Tuesday, March 2nd, was Dr. Seuss' birthday. We celebrated "Read Across America" by inviting our 4th grade buddies to listen to us read or read Dr. Seuss books to us. The PTA provided cake for lunch.
Place value is one of the most important and difficult concepts in math. The students have been exploring place value with many activities that will help them understand it.
Mrs. Messenger has done a superb job with teaching about neighborhoods, jobs, wants and needs, and maps for our Jr. Achievement lessons. She will finish the 5th lesson on Wed. We
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Stamping money--They have to know which coin to choose to make the amounts.