Our busy week!

This past week flew by! Here are some of the things the kids did in class this past week.

In math this past week, the kids sorted 2D and 3D shapes, played money concentration, colored by sum, and graphed animals. 

One of  their math stations was sorting 2D and 3D shapes.

The kids picked among circles and spheres, squares and cubes, or triangles and cones.

At my table the kids graphed animals and then answered questions about their graphs.

At a third station this week, the kids did an Easter color by sum page.

At their fourth station this week, the kids played money concentration. They had to match coins to amounts on cards.

In reading and writing this past week, the kids wrote drafts of their new story, unscrambled letters inside of Easter eggs to make words, matched compound words and sorted CVC and sneaky e words.

In writing, the kids practiced writing their own stories and making drafts.

They wrote and drew out their characters, setting, problem and solution before putting it on paper.

Unscrambling letters to make words.

The kids opened Easter eggs and unscrambled the letters to make CVC words.

After they made their word, they wrote it down in the Easter egg.

Sorting CVC words and Sneaky e words

Making Easter Egg compound words

In science this past week, we talked about the life cycle of plants. In their journals, the kids ordered plant life cycle pictures. 

Geometry, Length and Graphs, OH MY!

In math this week we did a few different things. At different stations, the kids made shapes on geoboards, measured different objects in the room, sorted objects by like attributes (things they have in common like shape, size, color) and graphed M&M's onto a pictograph.

At one station, the kids used shape cards (or shapes they know) and made those shapes on geoboards. Some made one shape and then started over, others overlapped their shapes. Either way, they looked pretty cool!

Making a star on her geoboard

Many different shapes on her geoboard!

At another station this week, the kids measure different objects and placed them in order from longest to shortest. They measured backpacks, notebooks, glue, pencils and scissors. After they measured each one, they cut out the pictures on their paper and put them in order from the longest to the shortest.

Measuring his science notebook.

Measuring back packs, glue and pencils.

At a third stations, the kids each got a fun sized back of M&Ms that they had to graph on a pictograph. At the end of the week, after everyone had graphed their M&Ms we answered the questions together. A few of the kids were able to read the questions and answer them themsevles! :)

At my table, the kids sorted different objects from a baggie based on what I said. If I said blue, they had to put all of teh blue things on the "example" side and everything that was not blue on the "Non-example" side.

Sorting by four-sided objects.

This Week's Math!

This week in math, we worked on shapes, time and graphing.

The kids' first math station completing shapes that were only halfway drawn.

The kid's second station this week was building and decorating a Christmas Tree by ordering triangles from largest to smallest.

 The kids' third station this week was graphing what a turkey ate for dinner! They had to write how many of each food the turkey ate, and which one it ate the most of.

Their last station this week was a time "test" where they had to write times they saw on a clock and put the hands on the clock correctly after reading the time underneath it. Everyone finished their clocks quickly with no trouble!