The day began with some math games and bingo dabber art for our morning exercise.
Eric and Sander getting creative.
Avery, Sander, and Ojani played some Olympic Ring Toss and used their fine and gross motor skills, visual spatial awareness, hand-eye coordination, accuracy, turn taking, sportsmanship, and math skills.
Ms. Elizabeth is completing her math work on subtraction with Ms. Rebecca.
Mr. Dean and Mr. Carter dressed up as policemen and used their addition skills to build a jail with our building blocks.
Carter not only counted the building blocks, he also blew his police whistle 9 times and then again 7 for 9 + 7. When he counted the total number of blocks, 16, he then had to blow his whistle 16 times.
Avery and Sander were exhausted from the math game and decided to engage in some silent reading.
Silent reading did not last too long as everyone decided to play a fun Di Rolling math game. We used our math skills, turn taking, sportsmanship, oral and two-way communication skills, and writing skills.
Mr. Carter was our teacher today and went over the month, date, day, year, weather, time, and feelings.
In art class today students got one circular piece of paper, a few popsicle sticks and pipe cleaners, tin foil, pieces of cloth, and crayons to create their own art piece. Everyone had such artistic and creative ideas, and used their fine motor skills and abstract thinking skills to complete their masterpiece!
"Everybody was kung fu fighting!"
Sander made a UFO
Lizzie made a Bunny
Avery made a Mask
Ojani made a Wavy Man
Eric made a Taco on a Stick
Carter made a Railway Crossing
As always we went over our Question Wheel and looked at different questioning techniques for Show & Tell. Everyone did a great job and used lots of inferencing, questioning and answering skills, oral communication, problem solving, scientific vocabulary, adjectives, and implemented the question wheel and the Five W's. I just want to remind parents that Show & Tell is every Friday! : )
Have a lovely weekend everyone!
1) Have your child keep a diary of weekend events, family trips, how the weather is changing, etc. and use pictures (use a camera), drawings, photos from magazines and/ or newspapers, and writing to describe their weekend adventures.
2) Go out in nature and create a picture and/ or a landscape and then write about what they have created. Use scientific vocabulary and do not provide your child with the answer (for anything!) always have them discover for themselves by actively 'doing' and 'investigating' rather than listening to your answers. The answers they solve and find out themselves will lead to greater confidence, success, and retention.
3 Play the monster picture game at home and get creative! Other great Barrier Games similar to that one can be found at: https://www.superduperinc.com/handouts/pdf/228_BarrierGames.pdf, and https://www.talkingmatters.com.au/information/downloads/barrier-games.
4) Discuss/read/create a story (fiction or non-fiction) and use the 5 Finger Retelling Method:
5) Work on two and three-digit addition and subtraction questions, whether you write down some questions for your child, or use math to cook, clean, set the table, do chores, play games, create a game, etc.
6) Discuss what nouns, adjectives, and verbs are by making a visual sentence using pictures from magazines, drawings, etc. and words. Example: The BOAT (cut out a picture of a boat for the noun) SAILs (use a picture of a sail for the verb) out into the DEEP, BLUE water (use a picture of something deep and blue for the adjectives). Have your child also write out the sentence (s).
7) Spend 15 minutes reading a book of your child's choice, a cartoon, instructions, recipe, comic strip, etc. Make reading fun, engaging, an adventure, and not a boring chore.
Mr. Jacob : )
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