Families, don't forget that tomorrow is ugly sweater day! Both Grade 1 and 2 finished their third unit in math today. Both grades were working on patterns! Grade ones continued their exploration of finding patterns every where. We learned that our calendar is a pattern (repeating days of the week, repeating months) and that even the sun rising and setting is a pattern. Seasons are a pattern, too, as all four repeat every year. Practice creating patterns from the environment by working on the below weather calendar. Have your student complete extend the pattern: rainy, sunny, sunny, cloudy An extra challenge would be for your students to make a longer core with the additional symbols and then extend that core for the whole month! Grade twos finished up their unit continuing their work on predicting pattern terms. They practiced many strategies to make good predictions, including using the last known term and using the length of the core to guess terms. We also talked about considering the most likely term, meaning that when we circle the core the object we see more of is could most likely be our missing term. However, this strategy may be quick but can often lead to more mistakes. In the extension question below, "strategy 4" refers to using the most likely term: Before we finished up our exploration of Rural vs. Urban communities, Room 9 learned some new Word Work games to make learning sight words fun! See some photos below of Word Egg Flip and Treasure Hunt! These games have students both say and write their sight words. During our review of Urban communities, students were takes with answering the questions: Which is better, rural or urban? Why? Our class discussion brought up many answers such as:
Rural because it's peaceful and quiet. Urban because everything is here! Rural because I would like to see more animals. Students also had to identify this they would see that would let them know they were in an urban community such as: a lot of people, more cars, buses and trains, traffic lights, and big stores like a Wal-Mart!
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