Day 44

I'm amazed that we are in our 2nd 9 weeks of school already! In math we are counting and making sets of objects and using numbers to describe those sets. Yesterday we added buttons to Pete the Cat's jacket.



I love hearing the excitement of counting their buttons! As you can see students are having meaningful conversations!  "No! I have more!"  "I have 9 buttons!"  They were comparing with each other and checking each others work!

Problem Solving
Our notebooks are underway!!!
Yesterday our problem was.
Dylan had a collection of toy cars.  He gave 3 away to a friend.  He had one still left.  How many cars did Dylan start with?
We started with a part, part, whole PLATE.  We talked about what the parts of the plate should be labeled.  The big part was how many cars he had altogether we decided...but THAT was what we were trying to figure out.  So one of the small parts was how many he gave his friend and the other small part was how many he still had.  We filled in our plate with "cars".  Then we moved the small parts to the big part and found our ANSWER...4!
After using manipulatives to solve our problem we put it on paper.

Some one asked if he could solve it by saying 4-3 = 1.  WOW...great thinking.  But I posed this question...Did we know 4 from our story?  We talked through this  and decided that maybe using the subtraction problem as a way of checking ourselves might be better!

Buck A Roo



Looking forward to a GREAT week!
Please send pictures of all my little Trick or Treaters and their Holiday Creations!