Today during math we did some checking of understanding by using our white boards and markers. There's something about a white board that all kids seem to find much more fun to work with rather than the old standard pencil and paper that I grew up with. We continued with number story problems like:
Jim loved to flip pennies. He decided that he won if the penny came
up HEADS. Jim flipped a penny 10 times. It came up HEADS only 4 times.
Out of the 10 flips, did he win more times or lose more times?
How many times did the penny come up tails? Needless to say it's a great way to get kids thinking about the way they use numbers. As we have time, we enjoy sharing our thinking about how we came up with our responses.
Toady we also used a poem during Reading Workshop titled The Sun's Glow by Tim Rasinski. Poems are a great way to examine word structures as well as in helping children become more fluent readers. We looked at the word ending "ow" and talked about how words rhyme and, by how knowing them,it helps us to spell other words. The poem lead into a sorting activity about nutrition where we identified foods items as vegetable or non-vegetable.
Emma's mom also came by this afternoon to teach us about the Jewish holiday Rosh Hashanah. She read several stories and we wished each other a Happy New Year with delicious apples and honey!
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