We had a special visitor for morning Math today. Dr. Amy dropped by our classroom to see our unique take on calendar math. She was very impressed by how we learn about patterns, ordinal numbers, days of the week, months of the year, place value, numbers that are 10 more, 10 less, one more, one less, tallies, number words, even and odd numbers, and time, all in 10 minutes. It is a rock solid math routine that gets our brains thinking. After this, we continued to build our math stamina by filling in our daily math boxes full of review material. This exercise is something that we will do quickly at least 3 days a week to review, build stamina and work on mastery of skills. After that, we had a mini lesson on telling time to the hour. We reviewed the minute hand, and hour hand, and how many minutes are in an hour. Our anchor chart can be seen above. We also counted how many things we could do in a minute. Felix did 34 push ups, and Aphiwe did 76 star jumps in a minute. Please work on the concept of how long a minute is with your child at home. During Language Arts today, we introduced two new student journals; "A Hobby" and "My Pet", we read the sample entries together, and discussed what we could write when it is our turn to take them home. Felix also read us his entry about his favourite sport, soccer, and Hermine read her entry about her favourite holiday, Valentines Day. I look forward to hearing more students responses. Not only is this a great reading, writing, and presenting task, but it also helps Miss Soa and I get to know the students better. After that, we began working on writing acrostic poems about friends. During our UOI time, we continued to practice our lines for our presentation on getting along, we also brainstormed more ideas. Our presentation will be pushed until next week when the students are more comfortable. We are looking forward to International Peace Day tomorrow. Please dress your child in blue jeans and a white shirt to support this. Felix seeing how many pushups he can do in a minute
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