Math Centres

We've been busy in our math centres:

We have learned to tally:



Play cards:


Make designs with pattern blocks (problem solve):



Make designs with tangrams (even harder problem solving!):

Sink or Float?

We finally were able to put our 100 Day buoyant structures in the pool (Grade 2 structures only).







We let them float for 100 seconds, then took them out. Some of the glue dissolved right after we took them out. Hot glue was fine -- but regular white glue caused some disappointment. Luckily it all happened after they floated!

The Lizard

We are focusing on the short vowel i sound this week!


Words of the Week

Grade 1
lip
sit
did
big
him
Bonus Word: lick

Grade 2
miss
lift
chip
lick
little
Bonus Word: lizard

Catsup

This week we are focusing on the sound of the letter a -- the short vowel sound as in "at".

This week's poem has many short a's!


From now on, our words of the week will not be "word family" words, but will have some kind of phonetic focus. So now we have to remember to listen for the beginning sound, the end sound and the middle sound!

Words of the Week

Grade 1
tap
lap
map
cat
pat
bonus word: that

Grade 2
that
past
have
add
class
bonus word: splat

100's Day -- 100 pieces of Lego

We built using 100 pieces of Lego. Each child built something with the exact same pieces as everyone else.

These are some of our results:

100's Day -- Counting to 100!

We counted Fruit Loops by 10's!

The mats really helped those of us who can't quite count by 10's to 100 yet!

Then we made necklaces. I love the variety in pattern everyone made!

100's Day -- 100 Popsicle Sticks

Why do we celebrate the 100th Day of school?
100 is a base number like 10. Once we can count to 100, we can count to 1000! It is a "milestone" number. We count by 2's to 100; by 5's to 100; by 10's to 100.

We sent home 100 popsicle sticks and asked the students (and parents) to build a structure using all of the sticks. Exactly 100. The Grade 2's were to make a buoyant (floating) structure!

Here are all of our structures!





















Next week the Grade 2's will put their buoyant structures in the pool to see if they will float (for 100 seconds!)