Each morning, since the first day of school, we have been practicing our "Calendar Math" time. During this time we talk about: the calendar, patterns, the weather, tally marks, graphing lost teeth, odd & even numbers, name and value of each coin, how to count coins, place value, and telling time.
This is a very important learning time we do first thing in the morning. Starting this week, we have allowed 1 student each day to "conduct" our morning meeting (with the teacher sitting right beside them). This is a great opportunity for each child to practice speaking in front of people, and they LOVE to feel like the teacher in front of their peers. When calendar math time is over, we let the student who conducted that day share something from home for a few minutes (like a stuffed animal or book etc...) then take questions or comments from their peers.
This is a very important learning time we do first thing in the morning. Starting this week, we have allowed 1 student each day to "conduct" our morning meeting (with the teacher sitting right beside them). This is a great opportunity for each child to practice speaking in front of people, and they LOVE to feel like the teacher in front of their peers. When calendar math time is over, we let the student who conducted that day share something from home for a few minutes (like a stuffed animal or book etc...) then take questions or comments from their peers.
So far this week Destiny and Elona have done calendar math, and today it was Alex's turn. Here's what calendar math time looked like today...
Here is Alex "CHAMPING" before he starts.
Before we start ANY activity, we always "CHAMP" , which means we ask the class:
What is our Conversations allowed to be right now?
What do you do if you need Help?
What is our Activity right now?
What is our Movement allowed to be?
How will we know if you are Participating?
Before we start ANY activity, we always "CHAMP" , which means we ask the class:
What is our Conversations allowed to be right now?
What do you do if you need Help?
What is our Activity right now?
What is our Movement allowed to be?
How will we know if you are Participating?
Alex is asking the class what is the name of this coin and how much is it worth...
Since it is the 22nd day of school, Alex picked Takara to come up with a way to make 22 cents using coins. The class is following along with her finger as we count 4 nickels and 2 pennies together...
Alex is leading the class in counting by quarters... "25, 50, 75, 1 dollar..."
He is asking which column in our place value chart we should put today's straw into...
He just went over the parts of the clock, what time it is, and now he is writing down the time the digital way...
Since Alex is now done with calendar math, he is sharing something he brought in from home... his build-a-bear named Brownie...
The students loved his bear and had several questions and comments for him when he was done.
Great job today Alex!
We are excited to see each and every student conduct calendar math this year! :)
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