Thursday, April 10, 2008
Poindexter Press for April 7th-11th, 2008
Dear Parents,
Welcome back from a much needed Spring Break! I hope you all had a wonderful time home with your children and were able to enjoy the nice weather. We are back hard at work and have gained 3 new students in the PM class.
The children have quickly learned how to use the “clickers’ that I am testing out in my classroom. Each day when they come in, they are responsible for finding their clicker number and entering a code to mark their attendance. We also use the clickers to take votes on undecided items, answer math problems, and to answer questions about books we are reading. The wonderful thing about them, is that each child uses the same clicker each day, so I can go back and check their progress by using their answers. We have also taken our Morning Message digital. I am also using the wireless chalkboard which allows me to move around the room and write the message while keeping an eye on everyone. I will try to post a sample on the blog: http://www.poindexterpress.blogspot.com
We have been learning about ants and their homes this week. Our Time for Kids magazine showed us several types of ants and their homes and we watched a Magic School Bus episode to take a look inside their nests. We also read “A House is A House For Me” to learn about homes for other animals. On the last page of this story, the words say, “and the Earth is a home for us all!”, which lead us right into…RECYCLING!! We talked about how we can take care of our home to keep it safe and clean for ourselves and bugs and animals. We decided to start recycling paper in our classroom—so if you have any magazines, newspapers, etc. that need to be recycled, please send them in!!
Thursday, we learned a new game called Roll and Count. The children each had a math mat with 10 dots, a number dice, and a +/- dice, and some cubes. They rolled the +/- die first and then the number die. Depending upon what the dice said, they either had to add cubes to their math mat or take them away. They loved it so much, they want to play again tomorrow!! ☺ We will be adding an additional math mat, so that if they have more than 10 cubes they have somewhere to keep them.
Have a wonderful weekend—check out the blog!!
Kristen Poindexter ☺
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