News from Mrs. Straw

Events:

-April 17 (1 hr. early out)

-April 18 (No School)

-April 21 (Snow Make-up day)

-May 9 Track and Field Day

What’s Happening in BUILD:

**Continued from last week due to field trip and band concert.**

B (Buddy Games)- Fraction games

U (Using Manipulatives)- Memory with fractions

I (Indpendently Working)- Greater Than and Less Than problems

L (Learning with Numbers)- Completing unfinished problem solving papers from our math folders

D-(Doing Math)- Scootpad on the computers

Week in Review:

Math:

This week we started working on two digit addition.  This is just an introduction in first grade.  They will work more with this in second grade.  We worked on two strategies.   

Strategy 1:

26

+37 

50 (add tens 20+30)

+13 (add ones 6+7)

63

Strategy 2: (add ones and carry the group of ten)

 1

 26

+37

 63

Notes:   

-We had a great field trip to the Sugar Shack in Algona.  Students learned how to tap a tree to get sap and the turn the sap into syrup.  We were able to use some of the syrup we made for lunch when we ate at the Chrome in Algona.  Please check out my blog for pictures.