Centers, Centers, Centers!

WOW!!! This week we began going to centers!!! Ms. Strum divided us into 7 groups of 3. We rotate through all seven centers and complete the activities that have been provided. During centers, we get to read to Ms. Strum and complete an activity that goes with our story. We went to a Math center, a Spelling center, a Phonics center, 2 English centers, and 2 Reading centers. Look at the pictures below and find out how much FUN we had while we LEARNED! We love rotating through Centers!

Quaniesha, Alex, and Shamiah working on their BASIC FACTS!

JeMarcus, Karlon, and Xzyia sorting the 4 types of sentences!

Kesheona, Toni, and Derrick are matching the subject with the correct predicate!

Trinity, Briana, and Ladarius are working on this week's spelling words!

James, Tierra, and Kenosha are reading Poppleton and the Grapefruit. They completed a story map on the story!

Jairus, Eddie, and Bryson tapping out the number of syllables in a given word!

As you can tell, we LOVE rotating through learning centers. Ms. Strum has lots of hands-on activities that we like to do! Please feel free to come by and visit to see what fun learning we have going on!

Place Value

This week we have been learning ALOT about PLACE VALUE! Ms. Strum has used base ten block to introduce this lesson. Ms. Strum also taped four squares on the floor. Each of the squares represented each place value. Each digit has a place. The squares from right to left represent the ones, tens, hundreds, and thousands place. It is very important that we learn place value so that we can understand regrouping.

Tierra, Johnathan, and JeMarcus represent a "PLACE VALUE"!

Ms. Strum also taught us how to add without regrouping using the base ten blocks. We know how to do this without base ten blocks. Ms. Strum made sure that we could show her how to add without regrouping using base ten blocks. This will help us SO much when Ms. Strum teaches us how to add WITH regrouping!

Shamiah, Alex, and Quaniesha using base 10 blocks to add without regrouping!

Bryson, Jairus, and Eddie using base 10 blocks to add without regrouping!

Karlon and Jemarcus using base 10 blocks to add without regrouping!

We have learned so much this week about place value using base ten blocks. Ms. Strum makes sure that we learn everyday. We MUST focus and always do our best! This is going to be the BEST year ever!