We began our learning this morning by discussing the many names that I am called. We discussed how Miss Soa just calls me "Mason", how my students call me "Mr. Mason", how my students last year called me "Mr. McCormick", and how my family calls me "Mase". While all of these are different ways to call me, they all mean the same thing. They are equivalent names for me. After getting the hang of this, and discussing different names have have for each other, we talked about how number have different names.
We practiced using the number 10 and the number 12, showing them in as many ways as we could. We wrote it in words in different languages, we showed it with coins, tallies, pictures, addition sums, subtraction differences, base 10 blocks, dominoes, and dice. I was so proud of the many ways our students knew to represent numbers. They then went and practiced this independently. I have sent this home for homework this evening with a family letter attached. After doing our Daily 5 rotations, we buckled down, and learned about the diagraphs 'oi' and 'oy'. We learned three new games to practice reading and writing the 'oy'/'oi' sounds. One group worked on sorting and writing 'oi/oy' words with Miss Soa, one group played a game called 'oink' where they rolled dice and fed a pig oi/oi words depending on the number they rolled. They also played a game of connect four, where they had to read oi/oy words before putting a marker on their game board, trying to be the first person to get four in a row. This afternoon, Miss Lanto put together a celebration for Dr. Seuss' birthday.
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Laira
3/13/2016 09:58:15 am
Awesome cake!!!
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ASA First GradersWe are caring, balanced , reflective, openminded, risk-taking, knowledgeable, principled, thinkers, communicators, inquirers, explorers and learners. Mr. Mason McCormickI am: a husband, teacher, friend, researcher, grad student, mulitliteracies specialist, designer, social media fanatic, lover of all things tech, creative, and progressive. I am an energetic, life-loving, no-nonsense person; passionate about respectful, rigorous, and relevant teaching and learning in the 21st century.
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