WOW! Can you believe we've been in school over 62 days. Every day I'm amazed with our class community. They work hard to help each other learn, and themselves each and every day. The growth I get to see build is profound.
During number corner, we continue to look for patterns, understand vocabulary associated with days, weeks, months, and build our number sense. Students are learning to look at larger numbers in groups of tens and ones when tracking the days in school, practice writing numbers without reversals, and counting forward and backward. Every day we practice "math hands," and use our hands to show a variety of number combinations up to 20. Most recently, students are building their fluency with naming numbers before and after.
This month's patterns involves a bear and a box. Students work on position words, such as inside, outside, to the right, to the left, behind, in front of, etc to describe where the bear is each day.
Although we've had a small class the last few days, we still continued with our day in the dark and pajama celebration yesterday. To launch our new science unit about the sun and its impact on earth, students got to experience what it would really be like without the sun. We definitely appreciated the sun for the light and heat it provides and realized how difficult it would be to work each day without light. Students are learning about why we have day and night and what makes that happen. Thanks for sending in lights to help your child do their work on "Day in the Dark!" 
