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Math – Ms. Andrea’s math group continued working on ordering numbers in the hundreds. We talked about the clues that help you find the bigger or smaller number (hint, hint: we used place value!). Then we reviewed tally marks and practiced making tallies for some numbers past 100! On Wednesday we tallied the classroom!! (Almost) EVERYTHING! On Thursday the Beta 1s did an excellent job of figuring out various skip count rules (ex: +2, +5 or +10) for many series of numbers and continued the pattern. Then, we played a new game called Fill to 100 that involved a spinner […]

HUGE shout out and thank you to Uncle Brock (Finley and Paxton’s uncle) for hanging our TV! It is no easy feat getting through the concrete blocks!!! Math – Ms. Andrea’s math group worked on ordering numbers and reviewed greater than/less than this week. First we looked at a number line and used clues to determine missing numbers. Next, we each got a couple pieces of a number line to complete and worked together to assemble them like a long puzzle. We also built the tallest ice cream cone in history! To do this we ordered numbers and checked our

Building Community & Establishing Routines- Building a community within the classroom sets the tone and encourages students to be active members of their own learning. Community is about relationships. It’s a place where people come together and feel like they belong. It’s about creating a space where every student feels safe; where students and teachers work together toward a common goal, and celebrate both collective and individual wins. We spend a great deal of time at the beginning of each year learning to work and play together, and we do this in many different ways: We read How Full Is

Visiting a castle in Texas?? Why, yes! Our little knights really enjoyed exploring, and battling, in a real life castle! Thank you parents for driving and spending the day with us at Newman’s Castle! Our feast on Wednesday was a huge success (thank you again parents!) Feasting was a very important part of medieval life for Kings in medieval times. It was a way for them to lift their own spirits and the people around them. Feasts were commonly a gathering of kings’ or nobles’ family and friends in which an abundant supply of the finest foods and drinks were

Math – Ms. Andrea’s math group began the week by analyzing and then creating our own bar and pictographs. We finished the week with 2 assessments – our graphing unit test and (part 1 of) a comprehensive that covers the scope of the entire year. They worked so hard!! Ms. Kelly’s math group started the week off with a fraction review- game style- before tackling new challenges with the exciting equivalent fractions concept! We began by comparing models, which gives a wonderful, very concrete visual, then created and plotted equivalent fractions on number lines. Literacy – In writing the Betas