Scenes Around the Classroom-November

Here's a peek of what our classroom looked like during the month of November:

Don't we look great?

Writing Non-Fiction

We're putting our writing skills like finger spaces and sounding out words to good use:  we wrote a non-fiction piece!

After researching both bats and spiders, students could write about what they learned.

I asked for four facts about one topic.  That's four sentences!  We learned that sometimes writers have to take more than one day to write one piece.  I was impressed with how well students could share what they learned!

In the future, we'll have lessons on including a topic sentence and a conclusion.  We're on the right track!

Roll and Record

One of the favorite things to do in math class is play the game Roll and Record.  It's where we take a die, roll it, and record the roll on a bar graph.

First we tried it as a class on our class projector:

 Then we tried it on our own:

 We worked on Roll and Record with a partner, too:

Partners would roll the dice, add up the two numbers, and color in a portion of a pumpkin on their recording sheet.  Roll and Record allows us to practice one-to-one correspondence, recording data, and interpreting results.  Even with all of that learning, students are still having fun!

Making Patterns

Have you ever had a time where you need your child to do a quiet activity for a really long time? This might the activity for you!  We made pattern bracelets using beads and pipe cleaners.  The students were so engaged in what they were doing . . .  Miss Keegan and I couldn't think of a time where all of the students had been so quiet for such a long duration!  Sometimes I would ask them to create a particular pattern, and sometimes the students could come up with their own pattern.

We had a lot of fun showing off our creations: