Calling All Construction Workers!

M.A.T.H. Workshop is underway!  The "M.A.T.H." in M.A.T.H. workshop stands for Math Facts, At Your Desk, Teacher's Choice, and Hands-On. For our hands-on center today, the students built fact family houses.  They were really into this project. Luckily these houses didn't require any hammers or nails. Please check out the pictures below. The students demonstrated great teamwork to conquer this task!

Today the students were "Non-fiction Text Feature Detectives" and used Post-it notes to stick onto the features they discovered inside Scholastic magazines. Prior to their detective work, they were exposed to the following features- photographs, labels, captions, and illustrations. When the students were finished being detectives, we added the other features they discovered to our list-maps, graphs, and bold print. This will be an ongoing theme!
I also read them the book Sheila Rae the Brave (for our fiction text this week). As a follow-up activity they read the Reader's Theatre version of the story.  This helped with fluency and enhanced their courage to stand up and "perform" in front of their classmates. Check out the pictures below!

Last piece of news...I'm saving the best for last!  All of the students have been bucket over flowers!  To celebrate our awesome bucket filling behavior we will be having pajama day Monday, September 29th! I'm so proud of them!