This week we
continued to work on reading fluently, echo-reading and paying attention to
punctuation. We added a little flavor to our morning calendar time, by doing different "voices" during this time. Most of the week, we did calendar in a "sPoOKy" voice, but thursday and friday we switched to volcANO!
This week we also started
doing addition and subtraction during the same lesson. What I mean by that is, we would do one
addition problem and the next problem would be subtraction, the students were
doing amazing. Whatever sum we got from the
addition problem would then become the whole number in our subtraction
sentence. (It also helped that when we “took
part away” or subtracted, they got to
eat however many fruit loops we were taking away. Subtraction is their favorite
now.)
And the
moment we were all waiting for: THE HALLOWEEN PARTY!!!
Here were the
learning targets on Halloween.
Each student
got to pick out their own small pumpkin that they were going to be doing
experiments on. Students cycled through
difference stations to test: how big around their pumpkin was, how much did their
pumpkin weigh, will a pumpkin sink or float, what does a pumpkin look like
inside, smell like, sounds like, how many seed are in a pumpkin, and how many
cubes tall is your pumpkin. Thanks to
our awesome parents (and sister) volunteers, it went SMASHING! At each station, the student would make a
prediction, test their prediction and record their results.
After all
the fun of Halloween had settled, we did spend some time learning about what it
means to vote and learning about the President of the United States. We rocked the vote on Friday, by voting for
the line leader for next week. The vote
was won by one vote, showing that EVERY vote does count!
