Fantastic February!
February 2nd 2018
This month we begin a new Learner Profile, Principled. We will also been focusing on growth mindset this month-I don't know, vs. I don't know yet! We have also been reinforcing why its so important for students to try their best so they can continue to grow. We remind students by telling them it is okay not to know but it is not okay to not try.
Math
In Math Unit 7 we are working on composing and decomposing numbers. Students played games like HIGH-YA, Total and counting up to solve a missing partner. High-Ya is when students are given a total (such as 8) they draw 8 circles in a line and then say HIGH-YA they draw a line to create two groups ( 3 and 5, or 4 and 4) This taught us how to decompose numbers. After we played Total. Total is when students are given a total (such as 10) and one partner such as 6, and they need to find the missing partner, 4. After students write the addition sentence 6 + 4 = 10. We reread to check our work, 6 and 4 make 10. Students are also working on counting up from a given number. They will lock the number in their heart and count up on their fingers to the total to find the missing partner.
Students are also working on counting to 100 without any errors by themselves!
Reading
We have begun interactive read-aloud this week! Students are loving listening to read-alouds and thinking critically. This week students learned how to buddy read by reading back to back, and then after turning to their partners and retelling the they read. Students learned that retell means to tell the story in my own words.
In the morning students have been working on their inferential thinking. We have looked at pictures of different places and imagined who might live there.
IB
This week KA has begun a new unit of IB--Transportation! Ka learned that Transportation can take you from one place to another place. They began to study different modes of Transportation: airplanes, walking, submarines, trains, cars, ships, bikes, and subways.
Writing
Today was our publishing party! Students were so excited to share their stories. They worked so hard to finalize their beautiful work. Students are working on adding more details to their writing. They also are working on sharing their work with partners to practice being strong sharers!