Skip Counting and Place Value

Last week we skip counted by 2s using our shoes and skip counted by 10s using the handprint wings of the bats. Check out the video below!

We've been working on place value in math. We used concrete manipulatives and moved to pictorial models. We are also working on representing the number in standard form (23), written form (twenty-three) and expanded notation (20+3=23). Students are also responsible for putting the numbers in order from greatest to least and least to greatest. Check out a few pictures from the classroom.

October Birthdays and....BATS!

Mrs. Hay wants to wish a HAPPY BIRTHDAY to our October birthdays!

Last week we studied BATS! We made a KWL chart about what we already KNOW, what we WANT to find out, and what we LEARNED about bats. We also wrote about bats first with a circle map, then a tree map and then our batty sentences. We also created bats and traced our hands as the wings. In math, we skip counted by 5s and 10s using our bat wings. Our bats flew out into the hallway and are on display this week. In ELA we've started to talk about author's purpose and why books are written...are they to inform (to give us facts/information) or are they to entertain (for fun/enjoyment)? Students used Scholastic book forms to sort books into an inform or enterain t-chart. This week we will be reading about SPIDERS!

REMINDERS: this week is book fair in our school library and PTA meeting tomorrow night, Tuesday, October 16th at 7PM in the cafeteria. See you there!