Read Across America
The week was filled with lots of fun activities to help us celebrate a love of Dr. Seuss and a love of reading!
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| Our Kick off Assembly |
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| Principle Vaughn as our community reader |
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| Showing our LOVE of reading during Read to Self |
Math
During math we learned all about place value. We practiced building, reading, and writing numbers into the hundreds. We practiced modeling 2 and 3 digit numbers with place value blocks and place value mats. We practiced conservation of number by building numbers the "hardest" and then the "smartest" way. We learned how to use tools such as place value blocks, the hundreds chart, a double tens frame, and mental math to begin to add, subtract, and make trades to deepen our understanding of place value.
Using Place Value tools to build and record 2 digit numbers:
Finding different ways to represent a value by building the first letter of our name:
Science
We began our new science unit by planting seeds and observing how our seeds changed as they grew. We also learned about habitats and made a classroom terrarium and a classroom aquarium that will be home to some organisms in our very near future. We even had a visit from Stony Brook and learned about some of the habitats we'll soon be visiting during our May field trip to Stony Brook Wildlife Sanctuary.
Observing our changing plants:
Learning about habitats with Ms. Marla from Stony Brook
Writer's Workshop
We worked so hard on our teaching books during this writing unit. Students grew so much as writers of informational books. They practiced adding important information, answering questions, and editing their pieces. They sustained the writing process by adding chapters to their stories and filling their books with interesting information, important details, and fun facts! We celebrated their hard work with an Author Celebration!
Learning from each other by sharing our Writing
Hope you enjoyed seeing some of our learning from March! Check back again soon!
