There's Always Room for One More

This is what it often looks like during reading time. On this particular day, I walked by and heard one of the second graders say to another,  "Come on in, there's always room for one more." It doesn't get much sweeter than that. Also, just look at that reading engagement!

"I'm The Greatest"

Gavin, Brendan and Rowan play a game of, "I'm the Greatest". The object of the game is to make the largest sum you can with 2 two-digit numbers. They had a great time adding up all of their sums with the calculator once they were done.

XtraMath and iPad Fun

The second graders had so much fun using the iPads to learn how to log into XtraMath today. They were very engaged. I hope that they get lots of fact practice at home with XtraMath too!

Salute!

Today we learned the math game, Salute! This game allows practice for addition by solving for a missing addend. In this game, one student is the dealer. The dealer gives one card to each of the other two players. Those two players hold their cards on their heads with the number facing out. The dealer looks at the two cards and says the sum of the two numbers. Each player looks at the other player's card. They use the number they see and the sum said by the dealer to figure out what their number must be. Then they rotate roles and repeat the game. This would be a fun game to play at home!

Book Shopping

Once per week we trade out the books in our personal book boxes and "shop" for our new books for the week. It's always exciting to get some fresh reading material into our hands. This week I encouraged our readers to fill their boxes with mostly fiction so that we can practice some expression and fluency.

Above: Brendan and Ryan practice their fluency and expression during partner reading time.

Fairy Liv is helping Ms. Cindy review the important facts that we learned about dental hygiene.

Addie's Day in First Grade

Addie was our leader today. She wanted to share a few things about our day together.

"Today in first grade we went to Music. We got to see ourselves in our musical, Swamped. At recess, Amyaya and I  played on the swings together. We worked on telling time to the half hour, we played Penny, Dime, Dolllar Exchange and we worked on a page in our math journals. Henry was my  partner for the math game. Mrs. Serrecchia read a book about bubbles. We learned that you can make a bubble big enough to step inside. I brought Mrs. Serrecchia some flowers in the morning. We read Knuffle Bunny Too together and then we started learning about how to write book reviews."