IPS/Butler University Laboratory School

This morning during Morning Meeting we revisited the idea of Bug Statements and solving problems with friends.  We wanted to show Miss Crume what a Bug Statement was and why they are so important in our classroom.  We had a really powerful discussion and I wanted to share a few of the comments from our friends.

DeOnna: “As you grow up you won’t have a teacher with you to help you solve your problems.  If you don’t learn now you’re never going to learn when you grow up.”

Emily: “It’s better to do a bug statement first instead of telling a teacher because you need to figure out your own problems.”

David: “If you have a problem and you already solved it you don’t keep it in your mind because that will get you more in trouble.  You have to let it go.”

In Story Workshop the students were given a story without punctuation.  Martavious shouted out immediately, “The punctuation took a vacation!”  The children had fun working together to put the punctuation back in the story.  This also really helped me see where they are with their understanding of punctuation.  In Math Workshop, we learned +10 -10 Bingo.  This game uses a hundreds board and practices adding and subtracting ten.

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