Let's add!!

We use our counters and number lines to add! Next week we start adding some bigger numbers to get sums up to 20!

Taste!!!!

We use our mouth to taste. We can taste salty, sweet and sour things! They tasted a sour patch kid, a salty cracker, and a sweet chocolate chip cookie! They also tasted foods that look alike but taste different and foods that look different but tastd alike (Salt and sugar and lemonade and pink lemonade). Ask them what tasted the same and what tasted different!

5 Senses- Odors or Aromas

We have been covering the five senses in science which has been a blast for children. We first did an m and m activity where they used their 5 senses to describe it. Yesterday we began our five senses book and they enjoyed it. The book has many text features In it which is what our comprehension skill is right now. There were headings and labels and the kids could have not been more excited. For sight they each put on a blind fold to experience how it felt to not have sight and they used magnifying glasses to experience how reading glasses work. The sense of hearing was a bit more laid back. We discussed what the different sounds we hear mean such as a fire alarm, the door bell, or our class chime. They also picked out tools to protect your ears out of an assortment of materials. My favorite was the sense of smell. I prepared bags with cotton swabs soaked in various materials. The students had to open the bag and take a whiff to determine if it was an aroma or an odor. The learning and excitement was contagious and the laughter was music to my soul. I love these kids and I feel like they are so enjoying their year thus far. I plan on catching you up and being better about posting. The beginning of the year if always tough for me to find my grove. :)

Sprint to 100

We are in the middle of our place value unit and the kids are enjoying it! Today we played the game sprint to 100. Ask the kids how we played? They rolled a dice and put out ones until they could bundle for a ten. No one got to bundle ten tens today for a hundred today but there is always tomorrow! We are also counting, read, and write our numbers to 120. We are counting on from any number, for example if I tell them 75 they need to be able to count on from there. We are also using a number line to put numbers in order. I will take a picture of our number line activity tomorrow if I remember.