Dear Mom and Dad:
Thank you for helping me post on the blog! Today we reviewed what our teacher's job is during daily 5. We were reminded that it is not my teacher's job to make sure I am doing my job because it's actually my job to make sure I'm doing my job. Our teachers are working with students and the reading tables and if we are all doing our job we can all get our work done. Today we got through 3 rounds of daily 5. Because we have introduced 3 choices to daily 5, 1)read to self 2) read to someone, and 3) work on writing, I got to all 3 today. During daily 5 literacy, I can choose what I want to do for each round but I cannot repeat the same thing again in another round.
We had gym today with Mr. Southworth and Mr. McDougal, ask me to tell you what we did.
We used our knowledge of investigating to try and solve a math problem. We read the book "The Napping House" by Audrey Wood and it was a silly story about a granny, a child, a dog, a cat, a mouse, and a flea who are all sleeping in a bed in the napping house. We have been talking a lot about inquiry and being investigators. Inquiry is a process that happens throughout our school year career where we ask questions and wonder and then we investigate. We will be amazing investigators. After reading the story our wonder was "how many legs were in the napping house?" We worked in groups of 4-5 and using one marker and one large piece of chart paper we had to work together to come up with some answers. The tricky part was showing our process and showing our thinking. Some of us used numbers, pictures and words to show our thinking. We will be going over it on Monday and allow groups to share their work. There were lots of conversation and we also had a discussion as a class as to what it means to cooperate in a group and working together.
Question of the day: Work with your family to try and investigate: (grade 1) how many eyes are there in your family? (grade 2) How many fingers are there in your family? Post on the blog how you figured it out, not just the answer.
Have a great weekend! We can't wait to see what you post.
Love,
The Rainbow Triad
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ReplyDeletePaige says 12 - she did 2 + 2 is 4 + 2 is 6 + 2 is 8 + 2 is 10 + 2 is 12 - one for each of us including her cousin and her cat.
ReplyDelete40 for abby
ReplyDelete8 eyes in our family. Kaitlyn figured it out by "using math in my brain".
ReplyDelete12....we drew a family photo and counted how many all of us have including the cat!
ReplyDeleteAva says: 16. everyone in our family has 2 eyes, so I counted by 2 and we have 4 people, 3 cats, and 1 fish. 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16! (i used my fingers to keep track of how many people and pets as I counted by 2s).
ReplyDeleteAaron drew a family pic and counted 8 eyes in total. 2 each for his dad, mom, sister and himself.
ReplyDeleteLexi says we each have 10 fingers, so she counted by tens and there are 50 fingers in our house.
ReplyDeleteHailey said there are 40 fingers in her house, she counted in her head by tens to figure if out.
ReplyDeleteThere are 50 fingers in my family
ReplyDeleteThere are eight (8) eyes in my family. I figured it out by using my fingers and counting with my brain. - Fiona
ReplyDeleteThere are 10 eyes in my family. I have four people and one pet. I looked at all my family members and counted up 2. 2,4,6,8,10 eyes.
ReplyDeleteCiara says we have 16 eyes in our house. We counted on mommys fingers.
ReplyDeleteJoshua says we have 32 fingers and 8 thumbs
ReplyDeleteTaylor says
ReplyDeleteThere are fourth fingers in our house. I figured it out because everyone had 10 fingers and counting by tens with four people that's fourty
Lincoln said there are four people and one dog in his house. That is 5. Each person has 2 eyes. Lincoln counted by 2s to get to 10. 2+2+2+2+2=10
ReplyDeleteOwen E. - 40 fingers. I counted by tens
ReplyDeleteDevon counted by 10s x4 = 40
ReplyDeleteAnya counted 8 eyes in our family. She put up her fingers by 2's for each member in our family. Then she counted all the fingers she had up.
ReplyDeletewe have 60 fingers in our family... Noah T
ReplyDeleteJack: I counted the eyes in my brain. I didn't say them. There are 6 eyes.
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