Cooperative Combo

Saturday, October 29, 2011

A Dark, Dark Wood

Listen to this fluency and expression! Cole is reading a poem called a Dark, Dark Wood that we learned in class. A perfect Halloween reading. Spooky!

Dark Dark Wood read by Cole by niemeyerc

Friday, we made pumpkin bars in preparation for Monday's show! Don't worry, there were lots of learning objectives embedded in the cooking. For example, we talked about the nonfiction text features of a recipe. We used math for the measurement of the ingredients. We also spelled our priority words in the batter while stirring!

Candy Corn Math

This week to work on building equations we did some "Candy Corn Math." Each student received a bag of candy corn. They had to think of as many ways as possible to build that number. It was interesting to watch them build and test their equations with the candy corn. As students manipulated the candy they found ways to make their number with two addends, three addends, and even four! At the end of the lesson, the kids had a sweet treat!

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

First Grade

We love computer time! Go down this list. Play each game and then you can go back and play your favorites. Have fun!
1. Alien Addition
2. Minus Mission
3. Rhyme Match
4. Word Machine
5. Pumpkin

Second Grade

Happy Wednesday! Work hard during your computer time today. Here is a list of activities. When you are through the list you may go back and choose a game to play. Have fun!
1. Word Sort
2. Word Builder
3. Penguins Place Value
4. Ordering Numbers
5. Ghost Blaster

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Spider Soup

In writers workshop this week, second graders have been writing some spooky menus. The first graders worked together to write a recipe for spider soup. GROSS! Well, last night I happen to find enough spiders to collect the ingredients for spider soup. Today, we ate it! Their faces were priceless.