Making Change by Counting Up

Today, in math, we learned how to make change by counting up. This can be a challenging skill for many students because it involves so many skills all at once (coin recognition, skip counting by 1s, 5s, 10s, and 25s, and an understanding of what is being asked in the problem). In class, we worked through several problems together and students were using their coins from home to practice counting out change. Their homework tonight involves counting out change 2 different ways for items paid with $1.00. Please remember that we want them to practice counting up from the amount the item costs, to the amount they paid.

I found a video on Learn Zillion that may be helpful when doing the homework tonight. Although it does not use coins to count up, they use a number line with the same concept.

If your kids would like a game to practice this concept, Fun Brain had a good game that your child could play.

Reading Notebook - Poetry

This week, we have been learning about poetry in reading. The kids have been learning many different poetry terms, reading poems, and even memorizing some! The students each have a reading notebook that they add pages to each week that apply to our reading skill. This week, the kids glued ipods in their reading notebook to remind them of how rhythm helps with meaning in a poem, story, or song. They also learned that three types of poems have rhythm: alliteration, rhyming poems, and repeated lines. Here is a page from one of the student's notebook:

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Welcome to Room 118's classroom blog! I am excited to start a blog that will fill you in on all of the happenings in our classroom this year! It will be a place to keep you all up to date on the learning and fun that is happening in your child's class. Thanks for taking the time to be involved in what is happening at Sunnyside!