Fact Family, Vietnamese Monsters and Soaring Skyward

 Every morning before we actually get into our math unit, we do “number of the day.” This works on different math strategies such as:

What two numbers can you add to make the number of the day?

What is 10 less? What is 10 more?

What number comes before? What number comes after?

How do you write it in word form?

What is the expanded form?

How can you represent it in base ten form? What does it look like with base ten blocks?

Thursday was number 37 and this is what our poster looked like. Each week, a student will have the duty of leading this and they get to pick a friend to help them in front of the class.

We did “bilingual buddies” for the first time this week. This is where each pair shares one piece of paper, each partner has their own colored pencil that represents their part of the work and the two friends work together to complete an assignment. I tell the kids if I see too much of one color on the paper, that means that friend is being too bossy. (Which the kids start to giggle for some reason...) For the most part, they did really well working together and not arguing. We did a fact family worksheet and they kids are really catching on math facts and fact families. Next week we will be comparing numbers.

We made monsters and worked on the phrase “I am a boy” or “I am a girl.” They got to create their monster and worked on the word boy and girl in Vietnamese. These will be our official sight words soon.

We worked on 6 new sight words. We will have our sound check this upcoming Friday.

 Soaring Skyward was a fun-filled day. The kids were pretty exhausted by 1:00 so I’m sure they went to bed early after getting home on Friday because I sure did. It was a jam packed day! Check out our memories we shared on Soaring Skyward day!