Ni Hao! This week we boarded the plane to China and have started to learn explore Beijing. We boarded the plane with our passports, suitcases, and tickets in hand! We took off from Burlington on a once-in-a-lifetime direct flight to Beijing! We started with a trip to the Forbidden City to see where the emperors used to live! We compared the Imperial Place to the White House and the National Mall. The Forbidden City has a moat, 90 palaces, and 8,707 rooms! We also talked about how much older China is compared to the USA. Has your child been abuzz with talk of a number scroll? Many students have been using every spare moment to work on their number scrolls! They are budding mathematicians using their place value knowledge to build numbers in the hundreds and even thousands! I can’t wait to see how far each student goes!
We’re back at it in first grade! After winter break, a two-day week, and a snow day students were ready to get back into the groove! This week students practiced writing a complete sentence! We learned a song, corrected sentences, and made sentence buddies! Students are working hard in math to practice their place value understanding. They played a new game and exchanged ten pennies for a dime from the “bank.”
“Would you rather swim in a pool filled with spiders or a pool filled with snakes?” “A pool of spiders because they can’t swim!” (just one great opinion of the day!) A belated post from before Winter Break. I didn’t realize I had so many amazing pictures of first graders hard at work!
Students worked to solve different number puzzles! Students were hard at work becoming math puzzle masters! |
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November 2019
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