Imagine you were sent into a deep, dark dungeon like Despereaux.
What would you miss the most and why?
What would you miss the most and why?
Monday, November 30, 2015
Friday, November 20, 2015
Mr. Turner asked the BUGS if they would be willing to talk about the 7 Habits of Happy Kids during our assembly this week. Of course! Was our answer!
We put together a little song and performed for the first and second graders. It was a lot of fun!
We practiced and practiced...
We asked the audience to help us with the rhythm....
And it went something like this:
7 Habits Poem
We’re the BUGS of Room 18
With the 7 Habits Tree.
The Habits help us live our lives,
And make us all happy inside!
They start with taking charge of you,
Choose your moods and attitudes!
Be Proactive every day
When no one even looks your way!
It’s best to start with the end in mind,
Set some goals and plan your time
Think before you speak or act,
It all adds up, that’s a fact!
Put First Things First, as a rule,
At your house or here at school.
Do your work before you play,
Practice this every day!
When a problems come, do what’s wise,
Think win-win and compromise!
When two people get their way,
It’s more fun to work and play!
Listen well before you talk,
With eyes and ears and all your heart!
Understand what’s being said
This makes you an awesome friend.
Synergize - work as a team,
New ideas are better, you’ll see!
Better than just you OR me
Do much more with SYNERGY!
Sharpen the saw - balance your life,
Body and soul, heart and mind.
Take care of you - every day,
That’s the 7 Habits way!
Finally, there’s Habit 8,
A habit that was added late.
Find your voice, your passion in life,
Use your voice, defend what’s right!
We can change the world - you’ll see,
Using the 7 Habits Tree!
Monday, November 16, 2015
I missed a couple of students while taking pictures during Sharing Day. I am so sorry!! Here are the ones I have:
Taylor
Grant
Nathan
Spencer
BUG audience
Parent audience
Blake
Judah
Chan
Sean
Reader's Theater Play
Drew
Cadasia
Caleb
Jacob
Vanessa Ann
Katelyn
Carter
Abby
Mariela
Vanessa Jean
Madelynn
Readers' Theater
Naomi
We had such a wonderful time! We are already "Beginning With the End in Mind" and planning the next sharing day! Details coming soon!
Friday, November 13, 2015
Thursday, November 12, 2015
As a part of math every day, we do what we call "Happy Counting!" where we practice skip counting and working our way from one number to another. Lately, we've been talking about using the "most efficient units" to move between numbers and today we put that into practice as we moved from 40 to 470. The students suggested a couple different ways to move between the numbers. Caleb suggested we start counting by tens until we reach 170 and then we switch to count by hundreds until we reach our target number of 470. Vanessa Ann agreed that we should start by using units of ten, but thought we should switch at 100, since it is a benchmark number. She suggested counting by hundreds until 400, and then switching back to units of ten until we reached 470. In either case, we found out that we were going to use 3 hundreds and 13 tens to reach our target number.
What baffled the class, however was that 300 + 130 = 430. Wasn't our target number 470?!
We thought...
...and thought...
...and thought.
Then we SYNERGIZED!!
The class quickly grouped itself and kids began sharing ideas. We reminded each other to "Seek First to Understand (Habit #5) and then to be understood!
Students grabbed scratch paper and drew their math ideas!
We had lots of different approaches.
Students even used the "Win-Win" (Habit #4) to make sure everyone participated!
No matter what we did, though, we kept coming up with 430 as our answer. Why weren't we coming up with 470?
This is what SYNERGIZING looks like!! (It was a really cool moment!)
It took awhile, but Vanessa Ann finally led the class through an explanation of why the "answer" was 430 and not 470! It all depends on where you start!
Friday, November 6, 2015
Wednesday, November 4, 2015
The new math module we started today focuses in on place value - a huge emphasis in second grade. We do a lot of work with students so they understand how a number like 3 can change in value just by moving it from the ones place to the tens place to the thousands place! This knowledge will help provide the foundation for learning how to add and subtract larger numbers, including three digit numbers where students will need to regroup. Understanding that the 3 in 834 is 3 tens, we can understand how easy it is to then "break apart" one of those three tens into ones and give us enough to subtract with if needed.
Today, we began by learning by experience - our favorite kind of learning!
The students spent time thinking and talking and SYNERGIZING!! with peers to figure out the most efficient way to count straws to see if we had 1000.
The class agreed that it would be the most efficient to start by bundling the straws into tens.
So that's what they did.
Then they talked it over again, and figured out that we should now bundle the tens into ten groups, which would make bundles of one hundred. They realized through experience why it is so much easier to count using tens as our base model!
It didn't take long to figure out that we did indeed have 1000 straws (with two left over!)
What the BUGS couldn't believe was that all that fun WAS the math lesson!
(When did learning get to be this much fun?)
(When did learning get to be this much fun?)
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