Our
math this week focused around the “tricky teens,” those numbers that students
struggle with the most. We spent a day making an anchor chart that showed you
needed all 10 of your fingers plus
more of your friends’ fingers to make a teen number.
Another day was spent making teen
number chains. Each group started with 10 blue links, to make the 10, and added
on a certain number of black links, to make the ones. We talked about how each
teen number has 1 group of tens and a specific amount of ones (15= one group of
ten and five ones).
We will continue working on reading,
writing, and creating numbers in the teens during calendar math and throughout
mini-lessons.
For
our inquiry project in reading we have been learning how apple trees grow. This
week the students watched a short video of the life cycle of an apple tree and
then diagrammed their own apple tree life cycle.
As
a culminating project for Unit 2 of Lead 21 students worked in small groups to
create collages of each of the 5 senses. They were able to write words, draw
pictures, and cut pictures out of magazines to represent their sense.
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| Tracing hands for "touch" |
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| Drawing lips for taste |
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| A skunk for smell :) |
