IPS/Butler University Laboratory School

We have worked on grouping and doubles the past couple of weeks.  Today some of the friends talked about how if 10 +10=20, then 10×2=20.  Then we talked about 10×3= 3 10’s which is 30.  They caught onto this and so by the end they were multiplying by 10’s up to 100!  They were so excited about what they learned that they wanted to chant it down the hallway on our way outside.

Yesterday we talked a bit about the 5 W’s when it comes to summarizing and comprehension.  Today, I gave each kiddo a viewfinder that had a picture of “Who”, “What”, “When”, “Where”, “Why” so that when they are reading their books during the day they can use that viewfinder to help them summarize and comprehend the books.

We also discussed today “stretching” our words out when we are writing.  We did a demonstration where we took our pretend taffy and stretched out a word.  As we stretched it out we said each sound we heard and then we wrote that sound down until we wrote the word.  During Writer’s Workshop, I noticed some friends doing the “taffy” motion showing me that they were stretching out words to write.

Jamari working on his self-portrait.

Jett reading his Writer's Workshop book

Comments RSS