During Math Workshop, students participate in a number talk. I write an expression on the board, they solve it mentally and then we share out our strategies! Number Talks are a great way for students to see multiple strategies for one problem! Number Talks also encourage students to explain their thinking verbally! On Fridays for Math Share, one student gets to lead the class in a number talk! This is a great way for students to practice listening intently to others' strategies and represent them!
At Bowman, teachers are lucky to get to work with curriculum specialists to practice new strategies! Today a Reading Specialist, Maggie Aikenhead, came in and modeled an Interactive Read Aloud! During an Interactive read aloud, the teacher models "thinking while reading" and asks questions to foster deep character and plot understanding. Mrs. Aikenhead stopped and "thought" out loud at various points and encouraged students to practice together! Students loved having Mrs. Aikenhead read to them! We used another "Same But Different" activity to explore partial sums for 3 digit numbers. Students readily grouped the hundreds, tens and ones! This is a great strategy to help stay organized in our brains!
A student shared his family's celebration of the Iranian New Year! Students love hearing about cultural celebrations! If your child would like to share a cultural celebration with the class, please let me know!
After students successfully worked together in goal clubs, they designed posters to share their tips!
This Same, But Different encouraged students to group tens and ones to figure out how many on each side! This was used to introduce students to the partial sum strategy for addition! During small groups, we worked on keeping our thinking organized (especially that extra ten in the ones!).
In our Team 13 community, we earn tickets for expected behaviors! Students can turn in tickets for a variety of fun things including sitting in Ms. Kupfer's chair for the whole day! Keep up the great work everyone!
Students self- assessed their reading skills and then formed goal clubs to improve specific skills! Students worked on improving their understanding of literary language, reading fluency and keeping track of longer books!
Students tried a variety of strategies to solve a word problem about butterfly eggs. Students began to draw conclusions about the relationship between addition and subtraction. Students used beaded numberlines to remove chunks of 10 and some students represented the whole and removed one part. At the end we had a math congress and shared all the different ways we solved the problem! What great flexible thinking!
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