ask me about monday, march 4, 2024

We started our day talking about leaders and teamwork.  We watched some short videos and talked about what the leader did and how the others worked together..  This is a topic we will be talking about throughout the month.  I am putting the videos below if you would like to take a peek yourself!  Ask me to tell you how the animals and characters worked together.

In Benchmark reading, we read about technology in the future.  We read about a space elevator and jet packs.  We have some pretty brave friends who are all ready to try both!  The space elevator seems to be an idea that ran out of steam, and probably won't ever be built, but I couldn't help myself and showed the children a short clips of the space elevator simulation at Epcot's Space 220 restaurant.  It shows going up and how everything below gets smaller and eventually we are able to see the state of Florida from space.  Then we saw the reverse from space, back to Epcot.  The children were especially interested in the jet packs.  We identified key details in the text.  Ask me to tell you about the space elevator and the jet packs and which I'd like to try!

We read a beautiful story today called Before She Was Harriet, by Lisa Cline-Ransome.  This beautiful book tells about the many amazing things Harriet Tubman did in her life.  I introduced her as a super hero who didn't need bat belts and being able to fly, but instead was brave, patient, and was determined to make life better for so many whose freedom and choices were taken away.  I shared this with the students on the board today because there is a wonderful recording of the author reading it, and I'll post it below for you to enjoy.

In math, we worked with finding numbers between other numbers.  For example, I asked the children to write a number on their whiteboard that is more than 8 but less than 12.  They did a great job.  We went on the show how to draw a quick number line to show our number.  We will work with number lines more, but this was a good opportunity for children to use it to explain their thinking.
We continued working with number bonds, and represented our decomposition of numbers with a number sentence.  For example, we wrote 7 = 3 + 4 to show the whole group we started with and the number partners that we broke apart from 7.

Keep reading for the Read-a-Thon.  Have a nice evening!
​Miss Wolfe