Our Week in Review and Our Ivan Celebration!

This was a very busy week in Room 24!  We finished reading The One and Only Ivan, and we even needed Mrs. Marano to finish the last few pages (Mrs. Merten was crying).  Many of us rated this book a 10!

In math, we started learning division using the "partial quotients" method of division. This method of dividing requires the children to think of the number as a whole, rather than as parts.  Traditionally this is challenging at first, but usually by the second week of practice students feel quite confident.  We are keeping a running survey of how the children are feeling, and most have moved away from "YIKES" and are at "PRETTY GOOD".  That is awesome progress.  Helping with this method can be challenging at home.  Students have been encouraged to bring their SRB home nightly.  Remember to return to this blog for the videos to help as well. We will be taking a division quiz next Friday.  Look for a study guide in your child's backpack today.

Celebrating Ivan

Today was a wonderful day!  We spent the entire "Creative Arts Friday" celebrating the end of our first Interactive Read Aloud.  The day started out with some Ivan Math. Then Mrs. Williams lead us in "Jungle Yoga".  We were tress, snakes, elephants, frogs and even sloths.

Jungle Trees

Elephant

Cobra/ The Snake

After yoga, we participated in art centers.  Children completed 4 art pieces in mediums discussed in this book.  Ivan painted with finger paints and colored with both crayons and markers.  We all had a chance to do this, as well as a pencil drawing. Finger painting was our favorite! Thank you to Mrs. Hess, our art teacher, for providing us with finger paints and paper!

We will take our inspiration from our artwork and from our story, and we will write poems about Ivan next week.  

We enjoyed our jungle and circus snacks!  Here we are sharing them.  Check out our tally chart of snacks we brought.

We brought Mrs. Toye a "jungle plant" and a thank you card. We just loved reading this book so much!!!

Later we played "Win, Lose or Draw" with vocabulary words from Ivan.

Angie and Charlotte had to "act out" swinging from vines!

Picasso

Finally, we shared some of our Ivan Powerpoints with one another.  It was a wonderful day.

Student Council Election

Congratulations to all of our candidates.  Speeches were wonderful, and everyone thought carefully about their vote.  Our class representative is Emily!

Mrs. Merten was VERY proud of everyone's reaction to the vote.  Though there were 15 disappointed students, they all applauded for Emily!  Congratulations to all who ran!!!!