Math Games

A large part of our mathematics instruction involves children playing math games. It's so wonderful to watch the children excited to play the games while learning important math concepts. The photos above show them playing a game in which they add the dice sums then record their answers to make predictions as to which number will come up most frequently. They were working with a "buddy" to help check their answers. After the game, we tallied our responses to form our conclusions. This way of teaching math is a hands-on approach and involves higher order thinking. Research has proven that learning by doing is the best way to learn. So, we will continue to play in class!

Other news...Spirit Day is Wednesday, January 27th. Can you believe that the 100th day of school will be Friday, January 29th? Wow! Grandparents Day is Friday, February 5th. If you have not sent in a picture yet, please send one in as soon as possible.

Robust Vocabulary Words for the next two weeks are:

This week...courteous, devious, rapidly, unreasonable, gullible, hastily

Next week...grumbling, chided, realized, bitterly, dwelling, amusement

Hope you all have a fantastic week!