The Math Division

This year is flying by! Can you believe school is almost out for the summer?  

Wow! In about a month I'll be somewhere tropical on a long overdue honeymoon! 

But.... Not.  Quite.  Yet.

We're still learning and we've been busy little almost 3rd graders!

The kids loved learning about multiplication and division and capped off their learning with some excellent math stories and fact family practice! 

 

Today we began fractions and started off slowly with our enVision Step Up lesson.

We did some equivalency strips and an Amy Lemons activity. Kids were making so many real world connections with division and baking and doing flap-books and tri-folds! 

Proud teacher here!

 

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This project is for 8 Chromebooks to get my students' keyboarding skills where they need to be. The kids will use them to research and write reports and will create a culminating project - like a paper or presentation. They'll even get to print it!

Grateful...

The parents in my class are so amazing! I feel totally blessed by the generosity they have shown this year!

Thank you, parents and families!

Working on my volunteer thank you gifts this weekend :) don't peek, parents!

Blueberries

We started using our SoDelicious grant! 

On Friday we learned all about organic gardening and how organic is better for the planet and our bodies. Then we learned all about blueberries and all of their amazing health benefits, did you know blueberries have been around for over 13,000 years? 

Students made a cool little book to track their learning and even got to record how blueberries smell, feel and... Finally - taste! The kids loved making a circle map about the blueberry and a tree map to track its features. At the end of the day the students left with a cool books, knowledge in their heads, blueberries in their tummies and some fresh, organic fruit to share at home! 

Festival Friday!

Yep. There will be Silly String. 

Yep.  A teacher - ahem - will be Silly Stringed... 

IF students can make a basket. 

Practice, practice, kiddos! I hope to be covered in Silly String and raise lots of $$$$ for our grade level fieldtrips!

Woo-hoo!

Update...

It was a success!

Multiplying Mayhem

Today was our fourth day of multiplication! 

We did a variety of activities to reinforce the concept of 1 and 0 and fact practice and finally - once we all had finished accurate work - we did multiplication bracelets using pipe cleaners and pony beads!

The students chose the multiplication problem they wanted to illustrate. The kids had to make their groupings on their pipe cleaner and be ready to explain to me the accurate multiplication sentence and the repeated addition that goes with it. 

Then they got to wear the bracelet and a sticker that said "Ask me about my Multiplication Bracelet". 

If anyone asked them, they had to tell them the math that matches their bracelet.

If they got their math correct the first time they got a special bead to bookend their bracelet. 

It was a color changing bead and they thought it was total magic!

Love, love, love second grade!

Multiplication Madness!

We started multiplication this week!

Whoa! The kids are over the moon to learn some "big kid" content!

They're feelin' like 3rd graders already!

In addition to our math program I'm using products from around the 2nd grade internet world...

 

We used bingo daubers.

These bingo daubers are from Amazon.com. They are cheap, come in a set of 12 awesome colors and the kids went bananas for them. Chose them over..... wait for it....... stickers (!!!!!!!!) when doing the 'hand' project above from Amy Lemons. A couple of them had Hello Kitty in their hands but 20/22 went with paint. Fast, fun and easy!