Halloween Party, Adding/Subtracting Ten and Vietnamese Writing

Nothing like having a party on a Monday at school! We had a fun time decorating cookies, pinning the bowtie on Mr. Bones, and make a spider from a lollipop. Thank you to Alice’s mom, Miles’ mom and Sophie’s mom for coming out and helping with the party!!! Our next party will be the Christmas party.

In math this week, we worked on adding and subtracting 10. We learned “the shortcut” of using our 100’s charts and either going up one row or down one row to find the answer. We also clapped backwards and counted back 10 boxes on our charts.

We did a fun activity where the kids made lamps. They got to pick their 6 lamp shades and had to write the answer on the light bulb underneath. 

The kids have been very noisy lately :-/ I decided to try Class DoJo to see if it would help them work quietly. Basically, each student gets a monster and they get points throughout the day if they are doing the right thing. Each time a student gets a point, it gives them a loud “ding” which they love hearing. I am testing out the waters as to if this will help them be less noisy but if it does, I will invite parents and parents will get to see their progress in this Class DoJo app.

 We will have our Viet sound check this Friday. We have been working on 6 words all this week and will be continuing to work on them this upcoming week. I haven’t told the kids yet, but we will be having “Vietnamese buddies” as well as “science buddies.” I have made plans to pair up with a 4^th grade Viet DL class and every month we’ll meet up with our buddies to do some sort of Vietnamese language arts activity.