This week in Math, we have been learning about combinations to 10. Our little learners played games and shared the combinations of 10 that they knew. We displayed all of the combinations to 10 and aske the students how they know them all. Since we used every number from 0 to 10 in our list, we listed every combination of 10. We discussed which combinations were easiest or hardest for the children to remember. They named 5 + 5 and 9 + 1 as the easiest facts to remember, and 4 + 6 and 3 + 7 as the hardest to remember. We further discussed how we could use 5 + 5 to help us figure out 4 + 6? It was explained that facts they know well, like 5 + 5, can be used to help figure out facts that we might not know well, such as 4 + 6. For this reason, facts like 5 + 5 are called helper facts. Everyone has different helper facts because everyone has different facts that they know well. The students then had a chance to identify some of their own helper facts when playing combination to 10 'Go Fish' and a game called hops. In Language Arts, students used the books that they organized into sectons last week to start writing their reports. As a class we read the book 'The Bear Report' (above) and discussed the importance of research. Together we looked at a variety of books and decided which ones we could get information from (non-fiction) and which ones would not be good for research (fiction). Once we identified the right books to research from, we practiced using using the table of contents to find information on appearance, habitat, diet, and the life cycle of a polar bear. We learned how to take notes on information from books and talked about how we will use this later to write sentences about our topic. Students were then spit into 3 groups; ladybugs, butterflies, and frogs. Each group worked with a teacher (or Frances) to research, make notes, and get ready to write later in the week. We also learned how to use our library's database to find books about a topic.
When we finished researching and writng facts, we began to illustrate our covers.
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