Discovery Learning

Yesterday, we did our first Discovery Learning lesson and activity.  We started reading a book about a girl who was always perfect and never made mistakes.  She learned throughout the book that it's okay to make mistakes, and she could learn from them.  We will be applying the same thought to our Discovery Learning: we will make mistakes, and we will learn from them.  This week's challenge was to build a perch for Harry, where he would be safe and could view the classroom.  Students had to work together, solve the problem, create a solution and fine tune their creation after testing it out.  They had a great time and Harry had his choice of some unique structures from which to view the class.  Job well done!

 

 
 

Math Facts with Roll and Add

We did an introduction to math facts in our classroom today.  We played a math game called "Roll and Add".  Students rolled two numbers, added them together, then switched the dice to make it another addition sentence.  Over the next few days and weeks, we will continue doing this activity, but will be adding subtraction, then doing all our facts together, making one big happy fact family!  Math facts, here we come! 

 

 

There's a Zoo in Room 22! (Well, really 217)

It was so much fun to see the kids bring their stuffies to school today!  They were so excited to have their furry friends sitting with them.  All of our morning activities had to do with zoo animals: reading, writing and math.  We read books about zoo animals, wrote about what type of zoo animal we would like to be and why, and graphed our zoo animals.  I snapped some photos while they were working ... such cute pictures!