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Daily Five!

The crew is learning how to use the framework of the Daily 5 to meet their goals this year!  We track their stamina on graphs and they are so excited to see their growth each time.  The crew is able to focus on personal goals while I conference with individuals or groups each day.

                                                                       Read to Self

                                      

                                                                Work on Writing

 

Read with Someone

 

Here are two partners practicing retelling a story with each other using their "retell" rope.

 

Listen to Reading

                        This is such a fun way to read along, enjoy a book, and improve fluency.

Coming soon.... #5 Word Work Pictures!

Number Race!

Number Race is a fun game I can change up to practice many math skills.  Today they worked on writing numbers by 5's as high as they could go in the amount of time given.  They had to work as a team and they did an amazing job!  We still need to work on keeping the numbers going the correct direction!

Role playing with the Wheel of Choice

The crew has been using the "Wheel of Choice" to help them when they have conflict with each other.  Today I gave them scenarios and with a partner or group they had to talk about what they could choose to do from the wheel to solve the problem they were given.  Most of them also chose to act out the conflict and solution.  This was a "hit" and definitely something we can continue as we learn more about getting along with others and working things out along the journey. 

Number lines!

In math we have been working on creating, organizing, and representing mathematical data in class.  Today we spent time learning about the number line representing objects to 20! This is one of the strategies your pirate may choose to use as they add and subtract numbers this year.

                            Later the crew each spent time counting objects in mystery bags!  

Curriculum Chat soon!

We have a few less pictures this week because we've been working on our video to show you at Curriculum Chat! We can't wait to see you at 6:00 pm!

Meet Mrs. Brim!

 

Mrs. Brim is someone I LOVE to teach with because she has so much energy and brings such joy into learning.  The pirate crew is already excited about the fun things she will come to do with them every other Wednesday for our gifted resource time.  

Fruit Salad... Yummy! Yummy!

Our fruit salad lesson is one of my favorites.  We talk about the bowl being like our classroom and we add fruit and talk about what it brings to our group.  Some fruit is like the pirates who follow the rules and other fruit is like the friendly pirates.  We add into the bowl fruit that represents the kind pirates and another fruit for the ones who share well.  We add in marshmallows for the pirates who are bucket fillers and sweet to others.   After ALL the fruit was added I tried to add a "bad banana" and you can tell by their expressions they didn't want it added to our bowl. 

 The "bad banana" represents trouble that can come into our classroom like calling people names or not sharing.  They decided NONE of them would be a "bad banana" this year and so the banana was thrown out and the eating of all the yummy fruit began!

Thank you for ALL the fruit you sent into class!  We loved it... yum!

Happy Birthday!

Another pirate's day to celebrate!

Milk Experiment!

This is such a fun experiment!  The crew is learning about making predictions and recording their data in their Science Journal!

  

The fun part came when they added the blue soap with the Qtip!

They watched a video with ideas for this experiment and got to try it again!

In the end... well it got messy, but there was a lot of learning going on with this experiment!