The 31st Day of School

WOW! We are on a ROLL.  Two days this week and TWO days of FANTASTIC puppy behavior! Ms. Woodard and I can see so much learning going on and lots and lots of smiles while we learn!!! 

HOMEWORK

Tonight a Investigations workbook will be coming home.  This will come back to school on Friday with HOMEWORK completed!  Homework for this week will be Investigations Activity Book: Unit 7 pg. 1,2,4,6,10,12,13.  This is due Friday, October 7, 2011.  Please help your little one take care of his/her workbook. This is the only one he/she will receive.  

Language Arts

This week we are reading First Grade Here I Come of course there TONS of connections to be made and it is a PERFECT story for retelling.  Henry the mouse takes us through his day at school.  We will be connecting this story with s.s. and creating our very OWN picture schedule.  

Our poem this week as we work on adding DETAILS  to our writing:

Fall

Fall is here.

Another year

is coming to an end.

Fall is piles of crunchy leaves

orange, gold, and red.

Fall is football,

Fall is pumpkins,

Fall is where summer ends.

Math

What an amazing day during the math block today! The afternoon FLEW by because there was so much great learning going on!!!  

We are extending our learning...not only are we working on our doubles but did you know we are also working on DIVISION! We noticed that if we make two equal groups out of our 12 months we have 6 in each group!!! AND...if we make two equal groups out of the days of the week we have ONE left over...Kind of like Doubles + 1...

Then we read Pigs will be Pigs Fun with Math and Money! The pig family is hungry...but they've already "raided" the refrigerator and there is nothing left!!! Father pig only has a dollar in his wallet.  So we had a friend come up with a dollar. But that certainly was NOT enough to buy them all something to eat.  So...they all start a HUNT FOR MONEY! Mr. Pig found a 2 dollar bill with his socks. That makes 3.  Mrs. Pig found two nickels, (Logan told us he would just get a dime instead) 5 pennies and 1 quarter. We started counting the dollars then the coins. We started with the quarter, looked on our 100's chart and quickly added the dime and then 5 more!  WOW!!! Meanwhile the piglets found 6 shiny dimes, a dollar bill and 200 pennies!!! How much do we have now?  (We continued to act this story out.) In the end we had 34.67.  BUT the pigs each bought the daily special which cost 7.99.  We rounded this up to 8.00 and found out their dinner bill was almost 32.00.  We paid our bill and had some left OVER!!! WOW...lots of mixed money counting!  Once we had 100 cents we knew we could trade that in for a dollar bill!  Be sure to try some of this with your little one!  We then went to math stations and as I listened in to problem solving today I was impressed at the explanations of how they knew 47, 43, 38 was ordered from Greatest to Least.  Almost everyone talked about looking in the 10's place and then the 1's place.  

I saw puppies building numbers trading ones for sets of tens and then counting the left overs. (All on their own!)

TOP DOG

Taylor is our TOP DOG this week!  She is a hard worker and very good listener!  Taylor is a great role model of what all TOP DOG's should be like! 

 On Monday, Taylor told us all about herself.  Can you guess her favorite colors?  She also likes the Disney Channel, McDonald's chicken nuggets, soccer and basketball! Not to mention she is FABULOUS!

 Today, Taylor brought in one of her favorite Barbie books!  She told me it was a tough decision...Barbie or Green Eggs and Ham!

Taylor was excellent at showing the pictures!!! Maybe a future FIRST grade teacher! 

Here's a sampling of her story! Thanks for sharing Taylor!