Jellyfish

 

Jellyfish are one of the things I love studying with my students and was part of our ocean unit. We made Paper Mache fact and opinion Jellies (top picture). We had studying about them discussed the difference between facts and opinions and recorded. This is a great stepping stone for us as later this year we will be doing animal research.

 

We also have been working a lot on math story problems over the past 6 weeks. We did many ocean themed math scenes. The above ones were of a subtraction problem where Sea Horses got stung and died by some Jellyfish!

A Smiley Sum of Seven

 In our classroom we have been talking all about addition. Especially using number pairs. We focused on number pairs that make 7 the other day! We created some Smiley Sums of Seven to help us remember. We also learned a saying to help remember what a sum is (look at the picture below). We also watched this video to help us: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WT_wvvEvkw4

Shape Monsters

We have been learning about shapes the first 5 days in school. These are firsties so I tried to keep as age friendly as possible. They love learning about shapes. Especially since we can do fun things to learn about them. We started the unit on shapes with a Chart that was students/ class made of shapes we knew some things about. I wish I would have taken a picture of it, but I didn't :(. We then talked about the different shapes. They also had had explore time during center with the shape manipulatives.

 

I have a daily math power point I do in which videos are embedded into. I can't upload the power point due to clip art terms of use, but I will but the links for all the you tube videos we used to help in our discussions and learning about shapes.

 

 

Square:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOr2eRBluUs&index=2&list=PLPphPHIzdSQMzUesl8-n9tjvIoGkghlGQ

 

Circle:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pc7gPfysIU8&list=PLPphPHIzdSQMzUesl8-n9tjvIoGkghlGQ

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3Q_a7zAtY0

 

 

Triangle:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WA2ney3n0wY&index=3&list=PLPphPHIzdSQMzUesl8-n9tjvIoGkghlGQ

 

 

Rectangle:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WHJio4TRNY&index=4&list=PLPphPHIzdSQMzUesl8-n9tjvIoGkghlGQ

 

 

Rhombus:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5B_ScUs1oo&index=5&list=PLPphPHIzdSQMzUesl8-n9tjvIoGkghlGQ

 

Trapezoid:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZG68tUOG28

 

Pentagon:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M44hNrLgT3I

 

Other basic shape videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v38vp3IwLho

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NcXVAviq-8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyGAyTc4DPI

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiMwcxaFsIY

 

 

 We just focused on these 7 shapes for now. We then made a chart together as a class. The students wrote the numbers in for the sides and corners.

 

 

Perimeter and Area

 Lately we have been learning about perimeter and area. We dug a little deeper today, and did a flip book to help us understand. It was a huge help! I really got to see where everyone was getting stuck, and who REALLY had it. We started off watching a perimeter and area song/ video. If you want to check it out or watch it again with them here it is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xk-PyhjFWw4

 

We had  a discussion with an anchor chart, and did one flip book together. Then they went back to their seats, and made their own. They got to make their own shapes to find the perimeter and the area out of graph paper. The only stipulations were 1) 2 of them had to be squares and rectangles and 2) They all had to be "whole" squares inside the shapes.

Happy New Year!!!!

 

 

Happy New Year! Well our class welcomed the New Year right with a little fun and learning!

We had so much fun doing this class math project!

We all talked about the different times everyone went to bed on New Years Eve or New Years Day for some.

 

We then put the time on a clock that we went to bed. We also labeled it a.m. or p.m.

 I was vey shocked that many went to bed before midnight. They all had great reasons though.

I loved Drew's reason; He had to go to bed so he could go Skiing the next day. So fun!

 

We then made a graph of all the different times that we went to bed. Most of us went to bed between 12:00- 1:00 a.m.

 

They then got to draw a picture of themselves on New Years Eve or New Years Day.

It is now all posted in the hall.

 







Polygon Monsters!!

BOO! We made some scary/cute monsters this past week! We learned about Polygons, and made some polygon monsters out of all different polygons. We now have them hanging in our classroom. So if your scared when you come visit don't worry they are friendly :). 



Place Value Planets

Talking about numbers is not enjoyable for every child. To help get them a little more eager into learning we did it through planets!! We talked about expanded form, and what is bigger 1s, 10s, 100s, or 1000s. They learned about it by seeing that planets are different sizes, and so are numbers!

Check out their fab art work!

Crayon Colors!

The year has been starting, and it has been a busy one! We go right into graphing in our 2nd grade classroom! So all of 2nd grade (76 students) got together and made this fantastic graph isn't so fun! I love graphs they are great for teaching more than less than and so much more!