It's hard to believe that we have been in school for 5 weeks already! It is true when they say that time flies when you're having fun :-) In math this week we focused on developing addition strategies to help students master basic math facts. Students wrote addition stories (word problems) and practiced "counting on" using an open number line. An open number line is similar to a traditional number line however it's numbers are not labeled. This will help students to visualize number lines as we move on to solving more complicated problems. Today we worked with another addition strategy: doubles plus 1 and doubles plus 2. We used what we know about doubles (4+4, 6+6) to help us solve other addition problems. We will continue to develop these strategies next week. We read "Fighting the Fire" in literacy this week and discussed how nonfiction articles can be broken into main ideas and details. Students worked collaboratively to complete graphic organizers showing the main idea of "Fighting the Fire" and provided details from the text to support it. This week we also discussed parts of sentences: subject and predicate. Students used white boards to identify the subjects of sentences that were written on the board. The concept of predicates was a little more challenging for some to understand and we will continue to work on it next week.
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Have a great weekend!
~ Mrs. D
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