Monthly Archives: October 2019

We dressed as our favorite book characters for Halloween! Do you recognize anyone?

Our classroom library is almost together! At least until we get new books… Students have talked about so many different books, fiction and nonfiction, as they’ve organized our classroom library. It’s also been a treat to watch them place books … Read More →

Our ladybugs unit is near the end. Throughout it we’ve observed our ladybugs and learned about how animals are a part of the ecosystem around us. This unit has included a lot of scientific vocabulary. Here we’re exploring the idea … Read More →

Our Name Greeting (we have a pile of cards, face down, in the middle with everyone’s names on them – a student turns one over and goes to greet that person, that person then turns one over and continues the … Read More →

We have recently begun our first exploration of multiplication and division. The is a math topic we’ll come back to again and again this year. Right now our goal is to understand what it means to multiply and divide. Gaining … Read More →

This math game is deceptively simple. You roll a number cube (we used ones from 0-9 but a regular one would work fine) four times. Then you choose three of those four numbers to make a three-digit number. You are … Read More →

Developing a deep understanding of numbers and being able to work with numbers fluently and flexibly are all critical skills for students to gain in the early grades of school. Clothesline Math is one way we’ll explore numbers and build … Read More →

We’ve been working on writing personal narratives – stories from our lives. We’ve got some amazing stories to share!

Sometimes in math we just need to practice computation and it can get dull. This color by number helped us practice adding three digit numbers.

Some of our larvae made it to adulthood!