Thursday, September 24, 2009

Today was another busy day as we prepared some special activities to share with our families for Open House tonight. In the morning, our question of the day was What is your Favorite Vegetable? We learned that more friends liked corn than peas or carrots, and we showed this with a number sentence: 3 < 5, and the number of people that like corn was GREATER THAN the number of people who liked peas. We are continuing to practice using terms like greater than, less than, more, and fewer when comparing sets of numbers. We continue to practice our morning math routines, counting by 2's, identifying odd and even numbers, practicing the date, identifying numbers and how many tens and ones are in a number. Today's number was 26.

During Reading workshop, we practiced the Daily 5, and learned about our library. We learned about how we use the library, and what rules we need to have to make sure we keep the library neat and organized so friends can find a book to read quickly. We practiced Read to Self, and were able to read for 12 whole minutes without any distractions! We are contintuing to work on our independence when reading, so that we can make great learning choices.

After lunch we had recees outside. We we came inside, we completed our Number of the Day Book. Today's number was 12. Ask your child to tell you the number sentnces that they made that equal 12. During math, the Red Rhinos worked on creating different quantities with coins. We also read the Jelly Bean Book. Please review with your child the names of the coins and the quantities that they represent. In math, the Green Gators on Breaking apart the number 5 and identifying the difference between hexagons and pentagons.