Won't You Be My Valentine?

Our class is one big family. Like most families, we love to celebrate and Valentine's Day gave us reason to do just that!

Thank you to all the parents and family members who volunteered to bring in plates, napkins, Capri Sun drinks, cookies, candy, donuts, and CUPCAKES! You guys really know the way to Mrs. Wright's heart! Also, your children have THE. BIGGEST. HEARTS. And I'm confident that they have learned how to love from you. They showered me with chocolates, darling My Little Pony and Marvel Superhero Valentine's cards and sweet hand-written notes. Thank you from the very tip of my toes to the top of this blonde head. 

We had such a fun time celebrating that the only picture I was able to sneak in was from our special breakfast together. 

 This sweet gem spoiled us with the good donuts. Three cheers for Krispy Kreme!

Great Minds Think Alike

Before Christmas Break...Wow! That seems so long ago and yet Spring Break is right around the corner already. Okay, let's start this again...

Before Christmas Break our class was learning about place value and base ten form. To introduce the unit I decided to challenge them, in their small groups, to figure out how many hundreds make 1,000. Each table group was given ten blank hundreds charts and simply told to create 1,000 X's. Here's a look at what happened next:

 I love how this picture shows how well they all worked as a team!

It was so much fun to watch how every group had come up with a different strategy for creating 1,000 X's. One group kept passing a hundred chart around their table with each student marking an X and then passing the chart on to the next student, while another group divided the ten hundreds charts evenly to each student. One group thought it was impossible because...

"Mrs. Wright, ten hundreds charts make ten hundred. We CAN'T make 1,000. 

We can only make ten hundred."

It took some groups a little longer than others, but the outcome was genius! 

Ten hundreds make 1,000!