Ms. Tinsley's Classroom Blog : Week 18 (January 5-9)

Week 18 (January 5 – 9)

It was such a wonderful week back! The students came back energized and ready to learn!! As I’m sure your child has told you, we have a new student in our classroom. His name is Stephon and he just recently moved to South Carolina from New York! He came in and joined our family with no hesitation. He blends right in and the students welcome him with open arms.

This week we focused mostly on reviewing concepts that we were working on before the Winter break. Such as place value, measurement, forces in motion, matter, and as always we are working on reading and writing!

As a class we love dancing! Brain break is one of our favorite activities Look at the kids getting down!

Math

Place value and measurement seem to be second nature for the students. They are mastering it and they also love practicing it. I wasn’t surprised when they came back from break still mastering the skills.

We also began looking at 2 digit addition. I let them explain what their process of thinking was to solving two digit addition both vertically and horizontally.

Social Studies

As we wrap up our review on forces in motion and matter, we will be moving on to a new unit in social studies. This unit will focus on culture. It’s one of my favorite units to cover because students have the opportunity to look at their own culture, their family’s culture, and then also an opportunity to look at other cultures. This is a great chance to break stereotypes and expose students to something different! I’m so excited.

ELA

The students’ first published books came out amazing. They worked so hard on them and the stories and illustrations are great! If you get a chance please come visit our board and take a read!

We’ve been working on lots of collaborating in our classroom through editing and revising, and also buddy reading. There is so much for the kids to learn from one another and I’ve watched them grow with the help of their classmates. They love working with their friends, but I’m encouraging them to branch out and work with some others in the classroom as well.

Reading is still our favorite time of the day!!