Community Interactions

We had a busy week interacting with our community.  On Tuesday, we, along with the Navigators delivered our food bank donations to the Edgewood Community Food Bank.  It took a large truck and mini-van to haul it all.  Our grand total number of items was 1100+ and it came in at 931 pounds!  Boy did we have fun unloading and weighing it!  The volunteers were so grateful for our donations, and the students even got to help sort and shelve their items!  The students asked really great questions to better understand how their work will make a difference in the lives of others.

On Friday, we did our annual trip to the Pumpkin Patch.  This is always a favorite! This trip gives the students an opportunity to interact with a different type of community (rural) as they had fun and learned some new things too.  The highlights were the cow train and corn maze.

Practicing their scary faces for Halloween!

This week, we are back to work as we are learning a variety of addition strategies to recall our basic facts more rapidly.  This can also be done at home with flashcards or there are lots of online games.  Being able to recall basic facts quickly demonstrates their fluency with this skill, as well as make them less frustrated when working with larger numbers.  Just like reading, we understand best when we focus on the content, rather than the words on the page. Fluency in reading is measured by the rate and accuracy at which we read.  The same for math.  If we know our facts well, we can better focus our efforts on more difficult concepts and patterns.

His sign says "this is just an upside down stair case" LL is using cuisenaire rods to show many ways to equal 10