Friday News Flash!

Triangles, Hexagons and Squares. Oh my!

Geometry is upon us and your kids are off to a great start! To open our study of shapes I gave kids one task, make a picture with pattern blocks. It can be any type of picture you want, and students went wild with math. Discussions came up about how to make different shapes such as a square with two triangles or how many ways we could find to make a hexagon. I was blown away by students engagement and their creative pictures. After they made their picture we did a gallery walk so everyone could see each others designs, and then we recorded how many blocks of each shape we had and totaled them. The student with the most shapes used 39 blocks total for his picture! At home you can have students find shapes, draw shapes and using the name of shapes when identifying objects to build their math vocabulary. Here are a few examples of the creative pictures your students came up with:

If I were President...

Presidents Day is just around the corner and this week we learned about two Presidents (George Washington and Abraham Lincoln) as well as looking at what a President does. Students were amazed by the fact that secret service follow them everywhere and that President Obama has his own chef! Students also looked at what a hard job it is trying to make everyone get along and hear everyone's ideas. We finished by making self portraits as Presidents, where they had to draw their features and write their last name, and also wrote about what we would do if we were President. Here are a few adorable examples:

Make friends with everyone.

Everyone clean your room before you have ice cream.

These next few weeks will be busy with Valentine's approaching, 100th day of school approaching and our field trip to see the play Bad Kitty. I will try and post more often but I promise I will at least post on Friday.

Smiles,

Miss Adams