Gamma

Worms, radishes, tadpoles…oh my! Our classroom is teeming with life! What a fun week for our Gammas. We have worn many hats these past few days: gardeners, actors, and scientists. To top it all off, we enjoyed an exciting Halloween fair and parade on Thursday. It was so fun to see the cool and creative costumes. Math In Gamma 1 we played games to strengthen our knowledge of basic multiplication facts, and then moved up to two by one digit multiplication. They are picking it up quickly! In Gamma 2 we wrapped up our focus on multiplication by completing an […]

We are so excited to have our Gammas back for quarter 2. They seem rested and ready to go! Although we are sad to leave the Vikings, our study of plants and animals is sure to be a lot of fun. We are looking forward to an amazing quarter! Math We kicked off this quarter by continuing our work on multiplication. The students enjoyed playing games to strengthen their skills this week . Gamma ones have been learning different ways to represent multiplication like arrays, area models and skip counting. Gamma twos have been honing our two by two digit

Lots of epic things were happening in Gammaland this week including a Viking raid! We are looking forward to a strong finish to quarter 1 and our celebration next Thursday. We are proud of our Gammas for how hard they have worked this quarter, and we are so grateful for your support! Math We are learning about multiplication. Gamma one learned that it is repeated addition and practiced setting up multiplication equations based on equal groups. Gamma two is moving on into two digit by two digit multiplication using several strategies including partial products and the standard algorithm. Memorizing the

Ahoy, crew! This week we officially launched our Viking longships and rowed into new learning adventures. Our fearless Gammas are absolutely rocking it. They’ve shown some serious leadership, keeping their learning space shipshape and staying on top of their tasks. We can’t wait to see where our Viking journey takes us next week. Full speed ahead! Math This week’s focus was all about solving word problems involving addition and subtraction of larger numbers. We practiced a strategy called UPSC (Understand, Plan, Solve, Check) to help students make sense of one and two step story problems. We also reviewed the algorithm

This week we set sail on our Viking longships! Our Gammas are in full swing now and doing an amazing job. We feel like we are really getting to know them, and we are proud of how responsible they are with assignments keeping our classroom clean and organized. We had an action-packed week, and are looking forward to another great one! Math We practiced adding and subtracting large numbers using the standard algorithm as well as strip diagrams. We also learned to check our subtraction by using addition. ELA We taught our students the “five finger rule” to use when