Good Morning Hosp

We have Good Morning Hosp every Friday morning in the cafe at 8:00.  We have so much fun saying the pledges, singing our school song, listening to upcoming events and a movement activity.  Some students may also receive a Solid Gold award.  This award is for those students that go above and beyond for others or Hosp.

Math

In math we are exploring place value and are learning where the tens and ones place is located in a two digit number up to 40.  We discussed that a number that is written as 32 is the standard form and the number written as 30+2=32 is the Expanded form.  The word Expanded was introduced to our class when we played Roll it! Make it! Write it!

After working on our math skills during math workshop we worked on solving a math problem.  We decided that there are several ways to solve our problem.

 Sophia showed us how to make a number sentence to solve the problem.  She took the numbers out of the word problem and knew that she needed to subtract to find the answer.  

  Andrew showed us how to use a number line to solve the problem.  He knew that he needed to subtract in order to solve the word problem. Here he is drawing a number line in order to find the correct answer.

Both strategies are correct.  We like to share our strategies with our class so they can choose the best way to solve a given problem.   

Tiger Rock and Watch Dog Dad Meeting

We had an amazing turnout last night for the Watch Dog Dad meeting.  While the dads met the kids had a karate demonstration from Tiger Rock.

WOW!!  It was fun!

Writing About Bats

Yesterday we read an informational text on bats.  We learned so many facts about bats.  Then we put those facts on a tree map to help us organize our thoughts.  Today we took those facts and made them into complete sentences.  Our focus for the week is to write facts from an informational text that we have read. We want to organize our thoughts and write them in a complete sentence.  Each sentence needs to start with an uppercase letter and end with correct punctuation.  We also need to make sure we have finger spaces  between our words.

Star of the Week!!

Savannah is our Star of the Week this week.  Savannah shows great self discipline all the time.