Important People Don't Always Come In Perfect Packages

Please put your headphones on and listen to My Rotten Redheaded Older Brother. Once you have listend to the story. Think about the carninival in the story. Why was the carnival an important part of the story? Please leave a comment to let me know what you think!

Click Here To Read My Rotten Redheaded Older Brother

Place Value

We are establishing our understanding of place value and working wtih composing and decomposing numbers. To help us develop these skills it is important that we practice using numbers in a variety of ways to help us strenghten our skills. Here are some links that will help us practice!

Please play this game first:

  http://www.abcya.com/math_bingo.htm
      As always we are love to practice multiplication, this BINGO game makes it fun!

Do 2 of these activities! 


http://www.toonuniversity.com/flash.asp?err=496&engine=9
   This place value game helps practice identifying the place value of specific digits.

http://www.toonuniversity.com/flash.asp?err=503&engine=15
     This target practice game sharpens our place value identification skills.

http://www.toonuniversity.com/flash.asp?err=509&engine=9
   This game focuses on comparing numbers to eachother.

http://www.abcya.com/comparing_number_values.htm
    This racing game encourages students to compare numbers and use the <,> and = symbols to share this knowledge.

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1. What do you want to see more of? Is there a type of game or type of skill you think would be beneficial?

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Our Mission Statement!

Today our class created a mission statement. Students worked together to pull information together to create a mission statement that represented our class! The mission statement can be found to your right!

New Year, New Students, New Adventures

We had a fantastic day here in room 117! Our first day was full of all kinds of adventures and I CAN'T wait to see what awesome things we will learn together this year. Check back for more updates and pictures of us learning!