We are now finished reviewing all the LifeSkills and Lifelong Guidelines. Each day I'm putting a mystery one up to see if they can figure it out. By reading the Welcome Message plus our quote of the day, they are to decide and write their answer on their white board. I gave green slips this week, to those who answered correctly. They really enjoyed doing this especially those who guessed correctly!
Some of the quotes we discussed this week:
- Winners never quit, quitters never win. (perseverance)
- Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. (No Put Downs)
- We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them. (Problem Solving)
Tuesday was an early dismissal day and a field trip day for second grade, so I only met with my first, second and fourth grade LA once this week.
You may have remembered that we started off this year with a new LA HA curriculum from the Indiana Department of Education. It has been just awesome to use! We began by pre-testing grades 1-4 on upcoming lessons. Well, as the year comes to a close . . . we will begin the post-assessments. We will not take several solid weeks to complete these, yet will work them in a day here and there. Plus with how our program is set up with only seeing LA or Math twice a week, I'm noticing that we did not get to all of the material pre-tested. Obviously we will not post-assess if we did not cover it, but there's also still time to teach. I'm anxious to see how they improved and I'm sure they will too!
Kindergarten Math:
This is such an enthusiastic group that looks forward to coming to HA. They were all very helpful to a student who was out last week. They wanted me to repeat everything from last week because they learned a lot about our procedures. We gave the edited version and got right to work. We started off by doing our Math Masters. Congratulations to Isabel for writing her numbers 1-100 in ten minutes! Also, kudos to Bayle and Camren for passing their +1's. It's a sharp group! We continued our work with interpreting a graph. We do this together using the doc cam. We've just started to set up our next assignment of gathering data on favorite colors!
Fourth Grade LA:
Going over our morning message, the fourth graders pointed out to me that we would not meet due to the early dismissal. I always forget that about their crazy schedule on early dismissal! Someone pointed out that they'd have to wait another week to read more of the Brixton Brothers. After making them wait over Spring Break, I just couldn't do that to them again. I adjusted our lessons to let them read independently around the room. Their paces vary greatly, so we will come back together where they've all read up to. I just love to hear them laugh out loud as they dig into this good book. It's wonderful! They also made time to write in their journals making predictions.
Fourth Grade Math:
I would love for you to watch how this group operates! They have such a respect and understanding for each other, that we can get so much accomplished. We finished up our last week of PEMDAS (order of operations), so I had one who was out last week that I needed to catch up. They all work at their own pace working diligently at solving the equations. I have them come up to me to touch base and see if they are correct before moving on. Some were on yesterday's page while others devoured their new challenge. I obviously can't clone myself, so I put two in charge to help "quick check" their answers while I helped others. I even had one come up and say he'd come back because I was busy with several others. OUTSTANDING!!! Congratulations to Matt for passing 100 division facts, Josh L. for passing division with remainders and Riley for passing his improper fraction test!
Second Grade LA:
We continued our study of metaphors. I was excited for this week's lesson because I have such a deep thinking bunch! We started off by reading an excerpt from a writing together. They were to analyze the sentence using bulleted points first, before connecting it to Edward. I then moved them to work with a partner using "button buddies". We've only just touched on the partner activity, so we will continue next week. The higher order thinking skills required for this activity are essential and they are doing a spectacular job at it! My goal is to have them do this independently by the lesson's end.
Second Grade Math:
Our latest sequencing of numbers is magic hexagons and squares. It's a puzzle of addition where the sum needs to equal a certain number using a set of consecutive numbers. They are a hard working group who take their job very seriously. They love the challenge! All have figured out a plan of action and get right to it plugging in numbers until they find the correct combination. We touched on Latin Squares and will move onto Sudoku next week. I've never been good at these . . . we'll see how it goes, lol.
Third Grade LA:
We listened to chapter ten in our book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. We discussed the book and also took time to write down our thoughts about the author . . . .his style of writing . . . and the story. I gave them time to work on their word search towards the end of the book. We are trying to pace ourselves to finish the book, do our post-assessments and also watch the movie before the year comes to a close. Luckily this group met twice this week. You can see them doing their push ups after reading the morning message, "Do ten push ups if you keep going even when things get tough." Lol, they wanted picture approval and had me take the picture again so they were all down on their push ups. They crack me up!
Third Grade Math:
Third grade finished the week doing their Kagen Showdown with decimals. It truly was a challenge, but got easier as the week wound down. One even commented that it was easy now! The teams kept getting the answers correct and little coaching was needed. Congratulations to Logan for passing his 11's, Brandon and Caysen for passing their 100 division facts and Jack for passing his division with remainders!
First Grade LA:
After solving our final REBUS puzzles (where it has a picture minus or plus a letter), we brought their homework assignment back to light. We discussed what a dime store was and shared their interviews with family/friends. I then shared a neat book called, The Fantastic 5 & 10 Cent Store. I began by reading to them then had them join in. They had to follow the REBUS pattern in order to read. It was a challenge and not fluent, but fun!
After solving our final REBUS puzzles (where it has a picture minus or plus a letter), we brought their homework assignment back to light. We discussed what a dime store was and shared their interviews with family/friends. I then shared a neat book called, The Fantastic 5 & 10 Cent Store. I began by reading to them then had them join in. They had to follow the REBUS pattern in order to read. It was a challenge and not fluent, but fun!
First Grade Math:
I introduced measuring capacity through a neat video on YouTube. It was a short cartoon set in the wild west in Capa City, lol. We then labeled a picture of gallon man which shows them how many quarts, pints and cups are in a gallon. We answered an overall measuring worksheet together. Congratulations to Trevor for passing 70 subtraction facts and Cal for passing 80 subtraction facts!
Yours in education,
Mrs. Koedyker
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