ask me about thursday, February 1st, 2024

We started our day by studying photographs of groundhogs.  We looked closely at their external features and made connections to other animals they are similar to.  We read about groundhogs and found out they are called by other names.  One of the names is woodchuck, and the other is whistling pig.  We are going to do our writing research project together and use the information we learned about their shelters in our book.  Ask me to tell you what I learned about the shelter.  Did you know groundhogs can climb trees?  

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We talked a little about Groundhogs Day and the tradition of watching Punxsatawney Phil come out of his burrow to determine if we will have six more weeks of winter or an early spring.  We collected data to find out which our class hoped would happen.  Ask me to tell you about our data and what more of our class would like to happen.

In math we took a fluency test with five.  The children had to move through boxes with objects and either add to them or cross out so there were five.  This meant they had to stay focused.  I asked them to go not too fast, and not too slow because we were trying to be as accurate as possible.  The Eureka routine for fluency tests is for the children to grade them, so we went over it together and they used a crayon to mark with a checkmark if they were right and to fix it up with the crayon if they were not.
We played a game to practice naming one more or less than a number.  The children either rolled one or two dice and added one on.  They had to cover four in a row to win.  The children with two dice had to add the dice and then add one more.  

Are you hoping for an early spring or just no more snow days?
​Miss Wolfe