Cinco de Mayo

We celebrated Cinco de Mayo a few days early!  After watching a video and researching the holiday, we learned some Spanish words, played Cinco de Mayo-themed math games, and of course, had chips and salsa for a snack!    

 We used context clues to figure out the meaning of some common Spanish words.

We practiced addition facts with a board game called Ole!

We learned how to count to 10 in Spanish.

We used QR codes and iPads to practice telling time.

Field Trip Fun!

We couldn't have wished for a better field trip last Friday!  The movie was great and the weather was perfect!

We went to AMC Showplace 12 to see DisneyNature's "Bears."  It was a great documentary!  Filmmakers followed a mother and her cubs as they searched for food in Alaska.  There are a lot of dangers for bear cubs, including wolves, starvation, and large male bears.  After the movie, we had a picnic lunch at Centennial Park.  We played and played on the playground equipment and ran up and rolled down the giant hill!

Everyone was exhausted by the time we got back to school!

Happy Earth Day!

To celebrate Earth Day, students were invited to turn trash into treasure!  Over their spring break, students rescued trash from the garbage can and turned it into something usable and beautiful!

                                     Coin jar                                                             Guitar

   

                                        Robot                                   Recycled pencils on a recycled display

                                       Maraca                                             Guitar and utensil caddy

                              Musical instrument                                             Bird feeder

                                  Easter basket                                       Organizer for small items

Happy Easter and Spring Break!

I hope everyone had a relaxing spring break!  We have 6 weeks of school left!!  Hopefully our batteries had time to recharge this week and we're ready to tackle the end of the year head-on!

On the last day before break, we took some time to celebrate the upcoming Easter holiday with math games.  Learning is so much fun when eggs and jelly beans are involved!!

3-in-a-row practiced addition facts.

We tested our scientific reasoning by guessing the flavor of jelly beans through smell and taste.

Scrambled eggs helped us work on adding and subtracting with place value.

A hidden picture mystery let us practice our odd and even numbers.

We practiced fact families by sorting eggs into Easter baskets.

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Did you remember to wear green yesterday?  We celebrated this Irish-American holiday in our classroom by playing math games and writing about the people in our lives that are worth more than gold!

Shamrock Sort - sorting subtraction problems into regroup/do not regroup piles

Racing to get around the game board first - while working on complements of 10

O' Lucky Day - Practice with adding 3 numbers while racing to fill up their board

Tasty!  Fractions with Lucky Charms cereal

100 chart Mystery Picture - what will it be?!

Leprechaun Luck - who will be the first to clear their board?  This is an introduction to probability.

Measurement

We have started one of my favorite math units... measurement!  We have had so much fun measuring objects in the classroom, ourselves included!

    

    

Happy Valentine's Day!

We had a small celebration in our classroom last Friday for Valentine's Day.  At NBE, Valentine's Day ended a week of kindness.  All week, we read books and worked on activities that emphasized treating others with kindness.  To cap it all off, we wrote letters telling our classmates why we appreciate them and exchanged cards!  Oh yeah... we pigged out on giant cupcakes, too!!