Place Value and DOT DAY!!

So, lesson learned again! Never introduce a new toy without giving kids a chance to play with it. We tried to focus on place value, but the rods were too good as drumsticks, and the hundreds were very useful to build towers so after a few minutes of trying, I gave in and let them build. They were very good construction workers! Not so great mathematicians during this lesson! HAHA. 

 We also celebrated International Dot day in honour of book ``The Dot`` by Peter H. Reynolds. Students were given a construction paper circle and instructed to turn that circle into something of their choosing. We came up with flowers, bugs, cats, frogs, swords, tacos, a tiger and many other creations. We didn`t get finished, so the completed projects will be up in a future post. For now, here are the beginnings.

First week

Man the days are flying by....we are almost at the end of the second week! We have done a lot of fun things, and I am really enjoying my class. We are still working on transitions, but that will take some time...haha.
Some of our first week highlights include: All about me pennants, sunflower glyphs, favourite words lesson, and introducing the "dice game".

Colouring their "pick-a-stick" people

All about me pennants: 

favourite animal is a goat???

Sunflower glyphs:

Art folders:

Dice game! Never had them all engaged at once! best and easiest math game ever! All you need are two dice, or even more exciting, DOUBLE DICE and a simple bar graph! Students roll the dice (or die) and add the two numbers together. Then they record the sum on the bar graph by colouring the corresponding square. The goal is to see which sum wins! All you hear as they play is, "7 is winning!" :5 is winning!" etc!