Valentine Math and Literacy

 Valentine addition with us as the manipulatives.

 Independent practice

 We read I Love You! by Deanna Jump and then played "Bee the Word" by putting the sentences from the book in order.

 We worked in math stations...

 ...while friends passed out their Valentines.

 Then we sorted, graphed and added our Valentines.

Two and Three Dimensional Shapes

    We read Captain Invincible and the Space Shapes. We discussed and identified the three dimensional shape on each page and the two dimensional face for the shape. Example: cylinder-circle. Then students went around the room and a chose a object they wanted. We returned to the carpet, shared our object, the the three dimensional shape and the two dimensional face. Then we sorted our shapes by the shape of their face. 

    We read The Shape of Things and the three dimensional shape and it's two dimensional shape as we read. Then students practiced making two dimensional shapes using play dough. Then I head a three dimensional shape card, we identified it and created it using play do.

    We read The Greedy Triangle. We discussed the three dimensional and two dimensional shapes seen in the book. Students shared a three dimensional shape they see at home, the object, and the two dimensional face. Then students used toothpicks and marshmallows to create three dimensional shapes. We shared our shapes. Then we counted and recorded the vertices (marshmallows) and sides (toothpicks).

Dr. Seuss Fun

Dr. Seuss week has been the students' favorite by far! We had so much fun reading his stories and integrating them into our lessons last week!

On Monday, we had Cat in the Hat day. We wore black and white and read the story. We wrote about what we do if the Cat came back. We read One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish and created fish additon stories using color goldfish crackers. We learned about Dr. Seuss' life.

On Tuesday, we wore silly socks for Fox in Socks. We graphed whether or not we wore silly socks to school and anaylzed our data. We also created pairs of rhyming socks. We reviewed systems and created machines to clean our rooms. We also read My Many Colored Days, chose a color, and wrote how we feel on that color days.

On Wednesday, we wore mismatched clothes for Wacky Wednesday! We also had a special visit from the Cat in the Hat who read to us The Cat in the Hat Comes Back. We compared that story with the stories we wrote on Monday. Then created a story map for  Wacky Wednesday. We read Bartholomew and the Oobleck and made oobleck with Mrs. Guntorius' class. We read Happy Birthday to You and created a cirlce map of birthday celebrations. We also had blue goo and pink ink for Dr. Seuss' birthday.

On Thursday, we wore slippers for The Foot Book. We took off one slipper/shoe, put in the middle, then sorted and made a list of the ways we sorted. Then we compared and contrasted using a double bubble map the oobleck we made with Dr. Seuss' oobleck. We read Oh The Places You'll Go and wrote about a place we would like to go. We read Dr. Seuss' ABC and created our own ABC book.

Comparing Sets and Attributes

This was the last week of the 2nd 6 weeks so we review math concepts for this six weeks. Below are some the activites we did.

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Sorting by Attributes

This week in math, we learned about sorting and attributes. We learned that attributes are words that describe: color, size, shape, texture, etc. We connected back to science by reviewing our five senses and what we learned about properties of objects. The first day, each student brought a ball to school and created a circle map of words that described their balls. Then we charted the words. Then we went back and categorized the words in groups such as color, size, shape, texture, etc.

Then someone came into our room on Monday evening and mixed up our math manipulatives. We had to use what we learned about attributes the day before to sort them. After sorting several ways, students recorded one sort in their math journals and labeled with the attribute.

Then we read The Button Box and discussed all the different ways they sorted buttons in the story. Then students worked in small groups to sort buttons.

On Thursday, the students were presented with a problem. They were given a bag of "cookies" and 4 plates. They had to sort the cookies by 1 attribute and make sure everyone got the same number of cookies on their plate. They had a lot of fun guessing and checking.



Sorting Rules

When we went to the computer lab this week, we worked in Pixie 2 to create three sets of objects using a sorting rule we created. Then we switched with a partner and they had to determine what attribute we used to sort our pictures.

Button Sorting

We read The Button Box by Margaret Reid. We worked with a partner to sort buttons by different attributes (color, size, shape, etc.) Then we recorded one of the three different ways we sorted our buttons.

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