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In Mr. Sedgwick's second grade class, we love to work at getting faster at our math facts for our school wide WIG! We can practice getting faster by playing math games. Some of the math games are: Tens Go Fish, Addition War, Pick Up Ten. We hope each of us can reach our goals by the end of Term 1!
Ogden Riley from Mrs Sumsion's 6th grade class writes, "We did a tea party math review. We would exchange notes then we'd take the partner's notes and so forth. This activity was a great exercise for the 7 Habits. We were synergizing and sharpening the saw. And for ya'll that don't know what the 7 Habits are, they are habits that will help you get through life easier. I challange you to go look up the 7 Habits TODAY!"
This week in Kindergarten the students had a blast learning about shapes! They cut out shapes from magazines, made shapes out of popsicle sticks and playdough, and even went on a shape hunt around our school and used iPads to take pictures of all the shapes they found.
On Friday, to culminate our unit on community helpers, the first graders got to spend some time listening to local firefighter Matt Johnson who volunteers for the Springville City Fire Department and works for the Salt Lake City Fire Department. He talked to the students about what he does as a firefighter in the community and how important it was for him to go to school to be able to become a firefighter. He also talked to them about fire safety, what to do in an emergency, and gave them coloring books to take home and talk about with their families!
Ogden Riley, publicity leader from Mrs Sumsion's 6th grade class writes, "We ended up getting 300+ paperclips at one of the tables. Look how strong the skin was. This was a fun activity. At the end of the assignment WE HAD AN OCEAN OF WATER ON EACH TABLE.
In 5th grade we learned about place value by using skittles. Each skittle was worth 1 unit. We discovered that 10 was an easy number to package them up into and count up easily. The students are hard at work putting those packages of 10 together. They called a package of 10 - tenlets. When we put 10 of those together, we got onehundrefiers. :) We got so good that we kept going on to thousandators and beyond. . .