Leprechaun 2024

We arrived at school today to find that the leprechaun had been to our classroom and totally messed it up!

We check our traps, but no leprechaun.  The only thing left behind was his footprints!

When we came back from lunch we found a note left from the leprechaun. 

He had left us some gold candy and leprechaun juice to drink.  The letter said if our juice was sweet we had been good, but if it was sour we had been bad.  Check out another video!

 

March Math Fun

 

In math today we had some March filled fun. We rotated around to three different learning stations and to the guided math table. 

At the guided math table we worked on finding a missing number in a pattern.  We first used gold coins to determine what the pattern was. Then, we found the missing number in the pattern. 

At our first station we played place value basketball.  We had to throw 9 different basket balls into the three basketball hoops. (Hundreds, Tens, and Ones hoop)  After all 9 balls were thrown we had to count up the balls in each basket and then write the number.  

At another station we played the game Garbage.  For this game we had to pick a card.  Then, strategically place that card on the place value mat to build the largest number.  Once you placed a card, you could not move it.

The last station was a game to help us practice missing numbers in a pattern.  When it was our turn we would draw a card and find the missing number in the pattern.  If we were correct, we got to roll the dice and move our piece on the board.  

We had LOTS of fun in math today!

Glow Day 2024

  Welcome to GLOW DAY!  The kiddos were excited to see our classroom transformed.

To start our morning off we rotated through GLOW math stations!  One of those stations was glow bowling!  Students took turns throwing the ball.  After the pins were knocked down, everyone had to write a subtraction equation to represent how many pins fell down or how many pins were still standing. 

Another math station was glow Jenga.  Students played this game with Mrs. Jojo.  Each Jenga piece was covered in 1 of 4 colors of neon black light tape.  After the child successfully placed the Jenga piece on top, he/she had to take a math question card that corresponded with the color on the Jenga piece.  Every student had to write their answer to the question on their glow board.  

The last math station we had was a measurement station.  Students had to walk around to room measuring neon lines with snap cubes.  Once they got the measurement, students recorded their responses on their recording sheet. 

When it was time to work with me at the reading table, students had to put on their reading detective hats.  We have been working on reading and find evidence in text to support comprehension questions.  Yes, we got to use highlighters again to highlight the evidence. 

We had so much fun on GLOW day!  We also read books by flashlight and we practice writing our words with special invisible ink that only  showed up under the blacklights. 

I head many of the kids say, "This is the best day ever!" and "I love this class!"  This is exactly why I love my job!  They were sad to see this day end, but I told them you just never know when another special day will pop up! I have many more tricks up my sleeve!