Holiday Book Club

Photo slideshow generated with Smilebox  The Third Grade Book Club met to share several favorite holiday books and several books that would be "fun" reads while we are off for the Christmas Break.  We all enjoyed looking at some traditional and not so traditional holiday tales!  Here are several websites that have interesting facts about this special time of year: http://www.msichicago.org/scrapbook/scrapbook_exhibits/catw2004/holiday_traditions.html http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/holidays/ http://www.the-north-pole.com/around/index.htm Also, here is a site with some Christmas math games - http://coolcatteacher.visibli.com/share/aX6dmf

Math Fun on iOS devices

I hope that you all had a wonderful and fun Thanksgiving with your family and friends. I went to see "The Muppet Movie" on opening day which was something that I hadn't planned on, but I really enjoyed doing. I also spent some time working on my computer and iPad and was reminded of some very fun apps that are available for you to practice math facts and math concepts in general. I have added some websites to my "Math Resources" tab at the top of this page for use on the computer and here are some apps that you can find in the app store for the iphone/ipad:
Motion Math
Rocket Math
Splash Math
Mad Math 2
G 2 Math
ACE Kids Math Games
Fraction Fiddle
Kids Math
Coin Math
Math Quizzer
Pop Math
Sumsstacker
Find Sums

HAVE FUN!

Flat Turkeys

St. Mary's Turkey's are making their way to Lafayette, LA in a pen-pal type exchange. First Graders from the Episcopal School of Acadiana sent their "Flat Falcons" (their school mascot) to St. Mary's with interesting thoughts about their school and questions for us about ours. A group of our first graders decorated "Flat Turkey's" created by Mrs. Hutton and mailed them back with the answers to their questions and lists of things that we like about St. Mary's. We hope that we will stay in touch with these new friends throughout this year!

Flat Stanley Storykits

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A small group of first grade students read the book, Flat Stanley, and did several fun activities relating to the story. Before we read the story we made predictions about what would happen to Flat Stanley and we posted these to a Wallwisher (see other post). Next we read the book and took Stanley on an adventure of our own creation in our Storykits using the iPads. Throughout the year different groups of students will come together to participate in these special activities:)

November Book Club

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First Grade Flat Stanley Predictions

OREO Project 2011

Several grades of students have recently participated in a collaborative project organized by Jen Wagner called the OREO Project.  Students make predictions about how high they will be able to stack OREO's in a tower before they topple!  Each student makes two attempts at the towers and then we find the class average of the best attempts.  This information is shared with classes from around the world.  We worked math problems involving cookies, looked up nutritional information about the cookies, and even wrote our own "If you give a ..... an OREO book"!  Click on the Smilebox below to see our girls in action!

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Click here to view the results of the OREO Project 2011.