Thursday, April 30, 2015

Race To Trace!

This is a partner game to practice numeral writing. Partners take turn rolling a die, reading the dots and tracing the number. The first one to have all of their numbers traced wins!

Spelling Strategies For Longer Words

You would not believe the words we are now able to write during Writing Workshop utilizing a couple of spelling strategies! Our book review binder is getting full as we continue to write reviews that will convince people to try reading a new book. 

Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Missing Number Game

In this cooperative game kids work with a partner to arrange number cards in order and then take turns closing their eyes while their partner removes a card. The child guessing the missing number uses this math talk sentence: "I think ---- is missing because . . . . "

It is a fun game and also provides practice with the following common core standard:

Counting & Cardinality

Know number names and the count sequence.

1. Count to 100 by ones and by tens.


Monday, April 27, 2015

Domino Fact Families



Writing Reviews and Reccomendations

We wrote book reviews today. We first planned out a review that we could write for one of our favorites, "I Ain't Gonna Paint No More." Then we got to work writing our own reviews on books of our choice.