(Featured songs or games include: a rousing rendition of Top, Middle, and the Bottom, a "Roll a Dice" game with Over/Under/On, a chance to kick along to the "Cupid Shuffle" while learning left/right, and a "Pin the Bird on the Cloud" game for Above/Below.)
Another engaging experience that we enjoyed this week was Digital Learning Day! On Wednesday, we participated in a Kindergarten carousel where we visited each Kindergarten teacher and learned to use a unique app that provided us with a chance to show off our learning. In Miss Hensley's room, we enjoyed Chatterpix for Kids where we made our sight words talk. Mrs. Pena shared Popplett with us and allowed us to create our own bubble maps where we drew items that started with a letter of our choice. Finally, Miss Todd showed us how to use 30 Hands where we created slides with pictures and recordings of our leveled readers. We had a wonderful time and are now able to use these apps in our reading stations to make our own creations. Here is a show highlighting our day. Check it out and see what all we learned on Digital Learning Day!
https://vimeo.com/122716909
In math, we have been working hard to solve addition and subtraction problems, using model drawing. This is the math program that they use in Singapore. Research has shown it to be very effective. Model drawing is a way for children to not only solve a story problem but to be able to prove why the answer is true. In order for our students to have a solid foundation in number sense, we find the ability to fully explain your reasoning behind your answer to be a very important skill. Model drawing allows our students the opportunity to practice doing this. Below you can see how we were able to solve problems that Miss Todd challenged us with this week.
We have become so very talented at solving problems that Miss Todd encouraged us to make up our own problems and solve them, as well. Here are some of those problems. We hope that you like them! See if you can make up a model drawing problem of your own!
We have become so very talented at solving problems that Miss Todd encouraged us to make up our own problems and solve them, as well. Here are some of those problems. We hope that you like them! See if you can make up a model drawing problem of your own!
Finally, in science we explored ten different types of paper throughout the week. Each day we preformed a different experiment on our paper to see what would happen and compared the reactions of each piece. In our show below, you will see the results of each experiment and hear about what we learned from them! Our show includes experimenting with writing on paper, folding paper, and putting water on paper. Let us know what you think by leaving a comment below.
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