Math!

This week in math:

We are measuring different sized cowboy hats with cubes

Addition Connect Four

Practicing reading tally marks

Domino compare. We each flip over a domino and add our two sides together, then decide who's domino has more dots 

Pete The Cat subtraction. Oh no! Pete is losing buttons! He starts with 6 and our buddy takes some away. We have to figure out how many he has left.

Friday Flash!

Friday Flash 

May 18^th- May 22^nd, 2015

Focus of the Week      ·      Literacy: -       Ghost Town at Sundown -       Sight words!      ·      Science: Tide pools      ·      Math: -       Addition -       Subtraction -       Subitizing (identifying the numbers in a small set without counting) Notes/Reminders      ·      May 16th: Art.Food.Community fundraiser at Thompson 4-8pm. http://www.arlington-eats.org/bowls/      ·      May 19th: Early Release 1:00 (lunch will be served, no snack)      ·      May 25th: No School      ·      June 8th: Tide Pool field trip (rain date June 9th)      ·      June 11th: Family Picnic (rain date June 12th) Things we need            Shoeboxes for tide pool dioramas. THANKS J

Conversation Starters      ·      How would you make tally marks for the number 4? 6? 10?      ·      What do you predict will happen in the next half of Ghost Town at Sundown?      ·      What is a tide pool? What is low tide? High tide? Kindergarten Sight Words a at and am are by can come go he I in it is like me my on of see said some she to the went we was you We have now introduced all of our kindergarten sight words. Kindergarteners should be able to read and write these words by the end of the school year!

Book orders due!

Today is the last day to place an order for our last Scholastic Book order! 

I will submit the order tomorrow (Friday) morning.

Scholastic Book Club

Class Code: J6BR6

Aquarium Visit!

We loved our visit from the New England Aquarium! We learned a bit about tide pools and tide pool animals, then we got to touch some! We are so excited for our field trip to explore the tidepools in June!

Literacy

We are having fun learning about the Wild West! Here are some of our literacy centers from last week and this week:

At Penmanship we are practicing full sentences with lowercase letters (and learning to draw cacti!)

We are also observing cacti!

We are practicing making words with our word patterns

We are writing Wild West stories using pictures as a prompt.

Friday Flash!

Friday Flash 

May 11^th- May 15^th, 2015

Focus of the Week      ·      Literacy: -       Ghost Town at Sundown -       Sight words!      ·      Science: Tide pools      ·      Math: -       Addition -       Subtraction -       Tallying Notes/Reminders      ·      May 16th: Art.Food.Community fundraiser at Thompson 4-8pm. http://www.arlington-eats.org/bowls/      ·      May 19th: Early Release 1:00 (lunch will be served, no snack)      ·      May 25th: No School      ·      June 8th: Tide Pool field trip (rain date June 9th)      ·      June 11th: Family Picnic (rain date June 12th) Things we need                  Shoeboxes for tide pool dioramas. THANKS J

Conversation Starters      ·      How do you play “Subtraction Bowling” in math?      ·      What did you learn about Tide Pools when the NE Aquarium visited?      ·      What are ghost towns? Are there really ghosts there? Why did people move away from their houses and towns?      ·      What do cowboys and cowgirls do to calm cattle down? What are some songs they might sing? Kindergarten Sight Words a at and am are by can come go he I in it is like me my on of see said some she to the went we was you We have now introduced all of our kindergarten sight words. Kindergarteners should be able to read and write these words by the end of the school year!