Remember, you can check out Kubbu's website to practice your vocabulary words, too.

You can click the icon to the left to play "13 Ways to Make a Half" - and see if you were able to find all 13 ways.

Or you can click here, skip the intro, and select "Halves" to check out the demo I showed you today.

The students worked together today to create this awesome Spicy Nodes.
Click and explore!

We've been having fun today with fractions. Yes, I promise we have! The children are learning how to "make and take" fractions of a group, which is challenging. I promised I would post these links to help them brush up on their skills. Enjoy!

By clicking the egg on the left, you will visit a site where you can:
1. Click and drag the carton onto the screen.
2. Challenge yourself to show 1/3, 2/4, or 5/6 of a dozen by dragging the eggs into the carton (they should 'snap' in).
The string is there to help you divide the carton into sections to see if you've made equal groups, though I'm sorry there's no official way to check yourself.

Click the start button here and enter in the numerator and denominator.

Click the butterfly to try the same activity we used today or try the challenge problem found here.

This morning started off with a very long convo. Many students earned their hats today, which was exciting! Celine also shared an Irish dance with Lower Division. She was fantastic!

Once we got back to the classroom, believe it or not, we only had time to complete math boxes before it was snack time. (I'm sure you're disappointed we didn't do more.) -page 172

During math, I helped the class understand that...

ten x ten = hundred

Okay, I know that seems too simple. But if you change it to:

4 tens x 8 tens = 32 hundred

It makes this problem easier: 40 x 80 = 3,200

Please see the modified power point below.

After completing several examples, we completed page 173 in our math journals.

This afternoon, I introduced similes...well, actually, we had a guest teacher today! Mrs. Carpenter came to visit! She taught the lesson on similes and when I wasn't looking, she had the students create an amazing book about similes.



The document each child completed looked like this:


The children spent some time in the library today catching up on Reading Counts and checking out books for the long break.

Mrs. Driscoll allowed them to complete their driver's licenses, too, so it was a fun afternoon!

I do hope you can come back to school tomorrow! We missed you!

Mrs. Neal

If you're looking for a new way to encourage your children to read over Spring Break (especially while traveling), check out these free ebooks for kids!