But for all of you teachers out there...you know how it is when the administrators are in and out of your room? Well multiply that times three today! YIPPEE for us...with that being said...I am SO proud of the PUPS...everyone worked hard and was "pretty" much on their best behavior! Please tell your pup how proud you are of them!
OH MY GOODNESS!!! I just realized this is POST number 500! For some reason I feel like that deserves some sort of celebration!!! PUPS any ideas???
WATCH DOG DADS:
Mr. Gonzales was here today! What a BIG help he was throughout the school AND in our classroom. Sweet Claire LOVED having her Daddy here! (You are welcome in 313 ANYTIME!)
LANGUAGE ARTS:
Today we started comparing common and proper nouns. We learned that proper nouns name someone, someplace or something specific and need a capital letter no matter where they are in a sentence!
When we went back to write we were looking for proper nouns in our Community Helpers papers and other writing! I heard lots of "chatter" about whether words were proper nouns or common!
During reader's workshop we finished putting our community flip books together! We will be going back to it throughout the year as we make connections to where we fit and our community fits into this world!
So...going back to having administrators in the classroom...there wasn't a MINUTE this morning to get the camera or video out!
At 9:45 it was time to introduce a NEW procedure...I will be leaving the classroom to do a guided reading lesson with a small group of first graders. Some of the pups will be going to other first grade classrooms for their guided reading lesson (M-Th) and some will be staying in the classroom with a teacher coming in! I know, I know sounds confusing! But ONCE AGAIN all I can say is UH-mazing...I got rave reviews about my pups from the other teachers! It makes my heart smile to be the teacher of such sweet, sweet kiddos!
TOP DOG TUESDAY:
MATH:
Okay so now we were FREE from "outside" eyes...(haha) and I was able to get the camera(s) back out! I tried to get Mr. Gonzales doing "Hands on My Head and The Maga Rana" (no luck...)! (But the kids sure did enjoy you joining in!)
LIVE ON 313:
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| Place Value Everyone's working on something! |
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| How many candy corns did I count? |
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| A finished product...19 candy corns counted...that's 1 ten and 9 ones and that is 10+9=19! |
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| Let's use rods and units to BUILD the number we spin! |
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| Patterning...This one was going through each cube. "AAAAAAAA, BBBBBBBB, CCCCCC"! |
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| Let's record the patterns we make! |
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| Journal/Number Sense...Today's Number! Working together! |
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| Measurement...spin the coin spinner, identify the coin and it's value. Roll the die, draw that many coins and find the TOTAL value! |
So...I'm super sad...I didn't get any pictures of my addition and subtraction group...They were back in the writing area working hard on Fact Families, addition and subtraction facts.
I heard so many great observations during tubs that after I thought it would be a good idea to reflect...
Today during math...
- Arabella said, "in addition and subtraction me and Claire did fact families. I realized in the top boxes the smallest numbers together equal the biggest number."
- Claire said, "I saw the Papa number always had 2 digits on the cards I picked."
- Savannah said, "at measurement a quarter is 25 cents. I rolled 5 nickels and that equals 25 cents too!"
- Austin said, "at patterning I made an ab and an abb pattern with 2 colors and an abc with 3 colors."
- Micah said, "at place value we grouped candy corn into 10s. We had 5 tens and that's 50. 50+0=50."
Wow what a day...a WONDERFUL day! I know you are all jealous that I get to hear and see such COOL things from your pups! Have a wonderful evening!
