Chapter 1 Social Studies Test

Chapter 1 Social Studies Test

Salute

Salute is a fun and silly math game that we play. Students are divided into groups of three using fair sticks. The cards are dealt to only two players. Each of those two players place a card on their forehead facing the other two players (not looking at their own card). The third player tells the sum of the two cards. Each of the players with cards have to guess what number they have on their forehead. This is great practice for addition facts. It is also a little introduction into algebra because they are figuring out a variable. This game can be adapted for subtraction and multiplication. All it takes is a deck of cards.

Spelling Practice

Both Bloggers are sick this week so Mrs. Condron is going to take over. Thank you for all of your hard with studying spelling words with your student. I wanted to share what we do in class to practice spelling words. We practice spelling 15 minutes each day. Sometimes we quiz each other over our words using dry erase boards. Sometimes we practice our spelling words with partners using spelling games such as tic tac toe (spelling style), hangman, sign language, and spell words on a partner's back. One day we work on our spelling words by ourselves using activities like sailboat writing, silly sentences, looking words up in a dictionary, and counting syllables. Ask your student about each of these activities and which is their favorite!!

Learning Garden

Today at the learning garden we dug holes, we made worm houses, we even picked tomatoes.

In the beginning this fun activity we planted lettuce seeds. It was so cold outside (That`s why we`re wearing coats!).  

Small Reading Groups

During small reading groups, we are making predictions about how stories end.  These students are working  hard using the text to back up their predictions.   Good readers back up their thoughts with information from the text.

Decorating our Reading Notebooks

When we decorated our notebooks, we cut out old book order sheets and glued them to our notebooks to show that we like books. This was a fun project we did.

Roll a comparison

This game is called Roll a Comparison.  Here`s how you play, one person rolls the dice and both of you put the three numbers down on the paper, on the bottom

 of the letters you would put them in least to greatest and graeatest to lest order, and then the next time,the other person rolls and then you both again put three  numbers down.This is how we learnd Greatest to Least and Least to Greatest.