Dr. Seuss Day!

We had fun day reading and celebrating Dr. Seuss.  Here are some fun photos of the day:

Sharing our Mathematical Thinking

This week, I introduced a game that required the students to think of a strategy to win.  The game is called 1-2 Nim.  The object of the game is to be the one who picks up the last block.  For each turn, you have the choice to pick up one or two blocks.  Since photos do not capture thinking, I recorded some of the student's responses on how they played and if they figured out a way to win every time.  This is a game that is played through the older grade levels.  In kindergarten, I am seeing how observant they can be while playing, since that is what you do when you play almost any game! A couple of my kiddos were being camera shy, but will try and get them next time!

 

100th Day of School!!!

We have been all about math today as we celebrate the 100th day of school!  We created self-portraits of ourselves at 100 years old, made a snack with 100 food items, decorated cool glasses (because you can't celebrate 100 day without cool glasses!!) and worked with the first and second graders to come up with 100 ways to make 100 math equations!

Happy Valentine's Day!

I can't believe we are half way through February!  We have had so much going on that has kept us from our regular routine.  Swimming was a big success for the Bumblebees, and they were quite sad to see it end. We have been talking about space, with the focus being on the motion of the moon and planets.  The bumblebees wrote their first "report" and had to find the information from a variety of texts. We are getting ready to study rocks and gemstones-a class pick for our next topic.  Over the next few weeks I will model the layers of the earth, and how the three different types of rocks-metamorphic, igneous and sedimentary rocks are formed. More recently they have started giving me a list of topics to study-I think human body will be coming up shortly too!