We’ve been working on measurement in our classroom. In our Bridges in Mathematics series, the unit begins with the students creating their own cute little inchworm rulers. The class enjoyed a roam the room, worksheet-free activity as they measured a variety of classroom items with them. Later in the week, we moved on to standard units with inches, feet and yards. Whether you use Bridges Math or not, you can implement some of these activities in your classroom too!
In our number corner workout, which is a whole separate thing from the math series, we are collecting quarters, making deposits and withdrawals in our “bank”, regrouping to the hundreds place in subtraction, studying solid shapes and talking about quarters as fractional parts of a dollar. This is just part of our March Number Corner display.
We also began our reading response notebooks this week. If you haven’t tried using them, this is a super simple way to get students responding to text following a read aloud or independent reading time. The kiddos are really excited and proud of their new books! Our author study with Tomie diPaola books has been a perfect starting point!
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I always enjoy peeking into other teachers’ rooms to see what is going on there and to get some new ideas.
I hope you enjoyed having a look into ours too!
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