Happy snow day everyone. Unfortunately many parts of the country have been hit hard with an ice storm. I'm happy that all the students are safe at home with their families. Hopefully everyone did their homework before going outside to make snowmen or go sledding. :)
In Room 205, we have been working hard on learning the different strategies to solve multiplication problems: Using known facts, making arrays, drawing equal groups and having lots of fun explaining to each other how to solve for the products. They are getting to understand the relationship between multiplication and division as well. They have been demonstrating their knowledge by using the graphic organizer, "Choose 3 Ways" to show what they know.
In Reading this week, we have been discussing our unique interests and those interests can lead to our future careers. These students have such kind hearts as many of them stated that they "want to help people". So I gave them many suggestions as to which fields they may look forward to and they seemed very interested. This has also been carried over into Social Studies in which we have been discussing their goals and how to achieve those goals.
In writing, we also made foldables demonstrating our knowledge of facts and opinions, and all the different types of pronouns--singular, plural, subject, object, and possessive.
The students are behaving quite well lately and they are working hard on earning computer time. There are 17 students who are assigned to Imagine Learning and all students in the class have been given time to "play" and "learn" by solving math problems on firstinmath.com. The students are enjoying this part of their day most.
Students can access
firstinmath.com through this blog or go straight to the website by typing the web address in the address bar.
Have a safe snow day!
~Ms. Chuk
