Monday, May 24, 2010

We started our day with only 15 kids! Stephen and Eesha came late so we ended up having 17 kids in all. We wrote in our journals and got new jobs.

There wasn’t a pre-test this morning. We learned about contractions. Contractions are a shortened combination of two words. You make a contraction by taking out some letters and including an apostrophe in their place. We saw this video from Between the Lions before making a list of contractions together.

We did our 100 facts again today. Lots of people are working on subtraction. Many people think they beat their best score today. After that, we played a game called The Bigger the Better. We worked with our partner from last week. Each player got a set of cards numbered from 0-9. Each player puts down one card from their set and then another and records on their paper. Both people make the biggest number from the two digits they drew. The higher two digit number gets circled and you start again. After 10 times, we figured out how many times both people made the bigger number. Nancy and Drew both ended up drawing the same exact numbers. The same thing happened to Amanda and Ms. Stern! Arlo realized that you can’t always get the number you wanted. Hunter liked when he got 9, 8, or 7 because they are the highest numbers and you win a lot. Emma didn’t like getting the 0 because you can’t make any tens with it.

After math, we went to specials. We had music and practiced for the music showcase on Wednesday. Everyone sat with an instrument: xylophone, metalophone, or a glockenspiel. Mrs. Fox had people at each instrument play a different note. We played tas and ti tis. Then we tried playing songs like Twinkle Twinkle Little Star and Mary Had a Little Lamb. When our regular specials time ended, we took a quick break and then Ms. Beglin’s class came for us to rehearse together. Stephen likes playing the metalophone the most because you can hear the notes better. Anthony D. also likes playing the metalophone because he makes different sounds. Nancy thinks it’s so fun playing the big xylophone because you get to stand up when you play it.

Please remember to send in t-shirts for Field Day. Our class is Stern’s Speedy Kids. Also, there is a new blog question up now about questions we have about second grade or going to TZE.