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Happy Friendship/Valentine’s Day! We had a blast this afternoon celebrating together! From decorating our bags and exchanging valentines to opening sweet notes and enjoying delicious snacks (huge thanks to our amazing parents!), the room was filled with joy. We also got creative making friendship pins and simply soaking up time with one another. What a wonderful way to celebrate friendship and kindness! 💌✨ Math – Ms. Andrea’s math group began their unit on Geometry! We reviewed plane and solid shape names, practiced identifying shapes around us, and sorted them based on their attributes – we even built some shapes using […]

Math – Ms. Andrea’s math group wrapped up their unit on time & measurement by reviewing straight line measurements and the technique of “marking the spot!” We did some more measuring of large items in the room, this time in inches AND feet. Then we practiced converting our mixed measurements into just inches using vertical addition and regrouping skills from past units. We even had some time to break out our analog time games for a little bonus practice before we took our unit test on Thursday. Ms. Kelly’s math group attacked tough perimeter problems with missing sides, moved from

Math – Ms. Andrea’s math group practiced estimating & measuring like crazy! We also had several discussions about measurement, how and why we do it and why accuracy is important. We looked at inches, feet and yards as well as centimeters and meters. Paxton chose to measure a popcorn kernel – that was the only time we delved into millimeters :) We measured some pretty large items by learning a new skill: “marking our spot” and there were calculations to be done – mostly inches into feet but also inches into centimeters! The Beta 1s practiced ordering sets of items

For a two day week, we sure got a lot done! Math – Ms. Andrea’s math group wrapped up their discussion of schedules and activities that are done in the AM vs PM and dove right into measurement! We began with non-standard units of measurement, using items such as coins, chains, cubes, etc. to measure classroom items. We learned the proper way to measure and the importance of always estimating before measuring, because we won’t always have a measuring tool with us, we want our estimating skills to also be top notch. Ms. Kelly’s math group leaped right into division

Math – Ms. Andrea’s math group reviewed telling time: to the hour, half hour, quarter past, quarter till, in 5 minute increments and down to the exact minute! We learned new time games and created a “Day in the Life of a Beta” schedule as well as a dream schedule! This week was full of lots of practice telling time to the minute WITH PRECISION for the Beta 1s! Ms. Kelly’s math group began the week working so hard on one and two step word problems that incorporate addition, subtraction and multiplication, moved into reviewing all of our multiplication strategies,