We had a fun week celebrating Dr. Seuss and enjoying some of his wacky books. On Monday we read the Cat in the Hat and wrote stories describing what we would do if the Cat in the Hat came to our house. On Tuesday we created a class rhyming book about Green Eggs and Ham. On Wednesday students enjoyed finding all of the wacky things in the book Wacky Wednesday. They then created their own wacky picture and wrote about it. We ended the week making predictions with the book I Am Not Going to Get Up Today. We will continue to read some of Dr. Seuss’ less known books next week. These include I Wish That I Had Duck Feet, Horton Hears a Who, Horton Hatches an Egg, and To Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street.
In math we focused on explaining our math thinking. We looked at 2 different examples of how pretend students explained their math thinking and discussed who did a better job. One example was a picture of the answer and the student simply stated “I knew it in my brain”. In the other example a student drew a picture of the number of objects and crossed off ones that were taken away. They went on to explain “I knew the answer was 4 because there were 6 coats, but 2 kids put theirs on so only 4 were left”. We then practiced explaining our thinking with different problems. Next we will dig deeper into the different symbols we see during math.
Monday, March 9th will be day 3.
In math we focused on explaining our math thinking. We looked at 2 different examples of how pretend students explained their math thinking and discussed who did a better job. One example was a picture of the answer and the student simply stated “I knew it in my brain”. In the other example a student drew a picture of the number of objects and crossed off ones that were taken away. They went on to explain “I knew the answer was 4 because there were 6 coats, but 2 kids put theirs on so only 4 were left”. We then practiced explaining our thinking with different problems. Next we will dig deeper into the different symbols we see during math.
Monday, March 9th will be day 3.