We are back from vacation and I am impressed by all the great thinking happening in the room today! Everybody came back ready to learn!
Here are a few quick updates on what we are learning about:
Math -- We will continue to visit time and money (telling time to the 5 minutes, identifying coins penny, nickel, dime, quarter, counting coins to a dollar). We have just started a unit on adding two digit numbers. We have started with "easy numbers" (no regrouping) to get the feel of how it works. Students have been taught to stack the numbers (written in vertical formation, lining up the ones and tens places), and to add beginning with the ones place, then moving left on to the tens place. This is a very important habit to get into, because once we move on to trickier numbers (adding with regrouping), if a student starts in the tens place and moves right, they will get stuck! Homework has come home to give you a feel for how it's being taught. Adding with regrouping will be coming soon! (Regrouping is the term used when you add the ones place and the answer is 10 or more, so you need to put a 10 into the tens place -- also known as "carrying".)
Science/Social Studies -- We have several mini-units coming up in science and social studies, including: Water Cycle, Martin Luther King Jr., Constitution and Elections, and President's Day (with a brief biography lesson on Abraham Lincoln and George Washington).
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