Good Afternoon,
I am writing this post a day early because I will not be in school tomorrow or Monday. I have two brothers who were both career Marines. One of them has already retired and the other will be retiring from the Marines on Saturday. My family and I are all going out to Pittsburgh, PA for the ceremony. I am both proud and humbled by their service and am glad I can share this moment with him. Mr. Cadwell will be the substitute, so class will cary on as usual.
Time, Time, everywhere there's time, open up your eyes and tell me the time . . . Well maybe that is not how the song goes but that was the theme in 1st grade math this week. We have been working on telling the time to hours and half hours. I will introduce quarter hours later in the year, when they have a better understanding of fractional parts. I like to relate the two concepts. This week I also assessed the addition strategies students were using to solve within 10 equations. I hope that the full class is back this next week and I can get everyone caught up and continue forward. Ms Figdor had this to say about 2nd grade math, "This week in second grade math we have been working on anchoring our additive
understanding in models. The second graders have been using number lines and then open number lines as a way to model their thinking. A number line representation of a number quantity has been shown in cognitive studies to be important for the development of numerical knowledge. If you want to learn more about the research on the importance of visual modeling to support students' mathematical understanding check out the following article. https://www.youcubed.org/wp-During our social studies time, we continued to talk about geography, community, and maps. We dove into characteristics of our community and used Google Earth and a Waitsfield map to find human characteristics and natural characteristics of the town. We then compared that to bigger cities by traveling on Google Earth to each spot. We even took a moment to look at Ben's hometown of Beverly.
NOTES:
*Just a reminder that the kids should pack an extra snack/protein bar that they can leave in their backpack. Today a few students were wanting something before lunch but didn't have anything in their bag. Packing an item that can stay in their bag for a period of time is always encouraged. I allow kids to go and grab something from their bag when they are feeling hungry.
*If your child wears boots to school, please make sure to pack a pair of sneakers or shoes too.
*Homework bags will go home today and tomorrow. Rememebr, these are books that your child is choosing out of interest. It may be a book he/she can read or it may be one they want read to them. If you don't read it that night, no big deal.
Have a great weekend.
Peace,
Tommy
