Week of October 26

Reading with Second Grade Buddies

As you know there was no power at Rowe School on Thursday.  The students did a great job on our adventure to Yarmouth Elementary School.  After our community meeting in the YES gym, we visited Mrs. Tate's second grade classroom.   Mrs. Tate did a read aloud.  Then kindergarteners and second graders paired up and read books together.  We also played a game called "Just Like Me." 


This week was our final week of Looking Closely.  One of our final activities was to cut open a pumpkin and draw and write about what we saw.  We also made replicas using string as the pulp and real pumpkin seeds.   We will be starting pattern books soon.

Solving Number Stories 

We did a variety of activities during math this week.  Students learned about number stories and strategies to solve them.  They sorted pattern blocks and created a graph to record how many of each block.  We practiced counting by tens.  We played a game called Roll and Record to practice counting and number writing and to explore probability.

We also did pumpkin math.  After cutting open the pumpkins we estimated how many seeds there were.  The children worked together to make groups of tens.  Once we sorted we were able to count by tens to find out how many there were.  There were 403 seeds!

During Reader's Workshop we continued to practice one to one correspondence while reading.  We learned a new sight word, and.   We also discussed characters.

A Pumpkin Art Project