Students have been working on the difficult skill of telling time. This week, students have been working on a class book to go along with the story, Time To... by Bruce McMillan. Yesterday and today, we rewrote the story so that the daily schedule would more closely match what our days look like. Students had to show the time in writing, in analog form, and in digital form. Then they painted illustrations that matched what the words said they were doing.
We have now started Unit 3 in math, which involves looking closely at patterns in our world--including, of course, patterns in numbers. For the past two days, students have been learning about even/odd numbers and what that means. Ask your child about the "Even and Odd Bingo Song" and how students lined up during our Math Meeting to determine if various numbers were even or odd. They discovered that a number is even if it can be paired and is odd if there is an "odd one out." In the photo above, students are counting "beans" and determining if the number is even or odd. Some students did this by checking the digit in the ones place, and some students paired the beans to see if they could all be paired or not. Mrs. Isham helped at this station!
Students practiced the concept of even and odd in their math journals, as well as completing "Math Boxes" (journal pages that help students review skills from earlier in the school year). Mr. Carter comes in twice per week to help.
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