Monday, October 13, 2008

We began another fun (but short) week in Room 145 today.

After choice time, we had our morning meeting as usual. We had a little bit of time left before art class, so we read a short math book (Ten Black Dots, by Donald Crews) to set up our math time after art class. On Mondays, we have art in our room - Ms. Gilman comes in to teach us. Today they began a project with leaves that had two steps -- the second will be done next week.

After art, we spent some time learning about the number 5 - and the combinations of numbers that add up to five. The kids put together 2 colors of linker cubes to make the number 5. This skill is an important one, as it leads not only to a better understanding of how numbers work, but also it directly corresponds to addition skills.

We also met a new friend of Mr. High Hat's today - Penny Put. the story and the sequencing cards are in your child's backpack today. Finally, we did some more work on counting by 10s, and then finished up with a couple of pages from Esio Trot.