Comparing Numbers

We had the CUTEST class pet this time. I believe our hedgehog was nocturnal so the kids did see much of him. I snapped these pictures as I was changing his bedding Monday morning.

We have been wrapping up our unit of comparing numbers this week. Here are pictures of the kids working and their work. I am slowly trying out flexible seating. The first seating I introduced were these pillows in the picture. Each day, I give 2 new friends the opportunity to use them for the day to work. So far, the kids are doing really well as to following the rules on how these pillows are to be used in class.

If there's anything at home you're wanting to get rid of that you think will help with our flexible seating in class, I would love to collect it!

Snow Week!

We continued our unit on comparing numbers this week. We learned that the alligator likes to eat the big juicy numbers. This helps us know the symbol for greater than and less than. 

Even though the kids are not expected to compare numbers above 120, I like the challenge the kids and most of them were able to compare numbers up to 500!

 This week in Mrs. Sklaban’s class, the kids got to bring a stuffed teddy bear for a writing assignment. They read some bear books and compared their bear with another friend’s bear.

Happy 2018!

I apologize for being MIA for awhile. I have misplaced my camera and life has been pretty busy lately. I do want to thank everyone for all my wonderful gifts for my birthday and Christmas. I was definitely spoiled! Here is a little catch up of what we’ve been doing.

In math, we worked on place value, drawing them and expanded form. Here are our cute little penguins we did while working on expanded form. These are hung outside of our classroom.

We did a lot of learning about how influential MLK Jr. was to our country and how he changed history. MLK is one of my favorite topics to teach in Social Studies. The kids loooove learning about him and how the world used to be so segregated compared to how it is today. It's something to be grateful for. We watched lots of videos and read lots of books. We even saw a real clip of his "I have a dream" speech!

In health, we learned about bones. We will do a writing about bones next week in class.

In computer lab, we have been behaving so Mrs. Neill let us have a party because we earned our 10 stickers. We got to explore legos, do Tux Paint and even get introduced to Dash and Dot!

We have been practicing our Tet dance for February 23. Our costumes have not came in yet so we're still waiting. The children are doing great learning the dance moves. It only took them about 3 days to learn it all.