Serious Business

In looking over this weeks pics I was struck by the concentration and focus that the children are bringing to all that we're doing.  They have matured and grown together as a group in many ways!  On Tuesday, we learned a new poem and placed it in our poetry journals, but when it became snack time many children wanted to read and recite poetry while they ate!

Even when it comes to playing cooperative games, our class is showing that they're with "the group plan".  Here you can see us playing "Doggie Doggie", a game of sneaky guessing that Ms. Coppock taught us.

This month in Number Corner the March calendar has us working on computations "to the next 10".  On the the 12th we came upon a word problem that added up to 12.  As a group we decided that it would take 8 more to get to the next 10- aka 20.  But after, I asked the children to "find more math" with that particular calendar square.  Here you can have a look at one student's thinking on their white board.  Wow!  

On Wednesday our big buddies helped us with our next Force and Motion experiment!  Again, our class was "all in"- this time with the challenge of making a marble travel the length of the paper, turn a corner, hit a target and cause another object move.  ...All without pushing the marble with your hands.  Have a look.