Highlights from the week 9/20-9/24!

We are solidifying our classroom routines! We continued doing our Morning Exploration Geography and Spelling activities, as well as Math Problems of the Day.
Here are some other things we did this week:
-Practiced visualizing the pictures when reading books without illustrations
-Learned about Math Mountains and the Fact Families that go with them
-Played a new math game called Missing Number Tic Tac Toe
-Started homework, which seemed to go really well!

Mad Science Presentation

Mad Science came to visit us this past Friday! The students got to watch and participate in a lesson about sound. Some of our classmates were called up to help:

Highlights from the week 9/13-9/17!

-Wrote our first Weekend Story of the school year
-Participated in the Green Machine program
-Started group spelling activities: Find It, Fix It, Finish It, Stretch It, Add It, Sort It
-Wrote 2 versions of "My Summer Vacation" story
-Watched a Mad Science presentation about sound
-Continued playing math games and working on representing numbers in different ways

Green Machine

The Green Machine crew came today to teach us about the process of food growing on farms to getting into our homes. Students participated in one of three groups to learn about the water cycle, soil and plant nourishment, and pest control on farms.

Highlights of our first week! 9/7-9/10

It was a short but busy week in Room 9. Here are some of the things we did together:
-Saw our friends from last year and welcomed 2 new friends, Mia and Paris
-Started our Morning Meeting routines
-Came up with a list of ideas that will help us have fun and be safe in school
-Read the books How I Spent My Summer Vacation, by Mark Teague, and Listen to the Wind, by Greg Mortenson
-Brainstormed ideas for a summer story and made a pre-writing plan
-Solved some math Problems of the Day and practiced math drawings using squares, sticks, and dots
-Learned and played 3 math games--Poison Apple, Gridlock, and Countdown

First Day Smiles!!!

Our first day together in Room 9 was a success!!!