Telling Time, Writing Letters, and Coming Up? Media Literacy
Hello Everyone!! I hope all the moms out there had a wonderful Mother's Day. I had a fantastic day!! Absolutely spoiled by my own and was able to spoil my sweet mom!!! So Blessed!! I want to share a couple of things we've been working on in class, and something that we will hit this week. In math we have finally arrived at our Telling Time unit. We talk about clocks and time all throughout the year, but formally introduce it late in the year. I wasn't sure why we waited so long to work on this important life skill, but now I realize that kids "get it" so much quicker after working on all the number sense, the fractions, the skip counting, etc. earlier in the year. The kids were so excited to really learn about telling time that they went home and asked moms and dads to get them watches!! I love their enthusiasm. Yesterday and today we worked with our "bigger than life" hula hoop clock. We were able to manipulate all the numbers, the...
