In math today students were introduced to number racks (also sometimes referred to as rekenreks). These are a great visual tool to start building automaticity with addition and subtraction facts within 20. We will also be working on "making 10" and "making 20." For example, 13 + __ = 20.
Students were also taught a new workplace "Guess the Beetle." To complete this workplace students gain practice reading a key/legend. During the other workplaces, I observed even more great learning! Students were eager to take on challenges. For example, making cube trains that were twice as long as their group member's. And using different shape blocks to make different triangles and estimating how many triangles it would take to fill 4 hexagons. In the geoboard center students made shapes with different numbers of sides.
Below you will also see some pictures of us working on the calendar during number corner first thing in the morning.