If we teach today as we taught yesterday, we rob our children of tomorrow. -John Dewey

Wednesday, December 21, 2016

Multiplication PaRtY

15 of our 22 students were able to participate in our multiplication party today. At the beginning of the year each student received flash cards and a note stating our goal "to pass know all multiplication facts by Christmas break". We have been working on them since day 1 (4 months ago!). Today we celebrated the success of those who have. Those that haven't mastered their multiply facts will keep working, working, working and will hopefully be able to attend our swimming party in May at the end of the year.

For our party, we played "minute to win it" games and had a ball!!!


Brrrr!! It's cold in here







Cookie Face







Water Bottle Flip Challenge










Pyramid Time



Wednesday, December 7, 2016

Cursive still matters!


I have been trying to get my kids to understand why we have to learn cursive all year.  We do cursive  3  times a week and they moan and groan each time. Today Dex brought a letter that his elf Zippy had written his family. The class was so impressed that he could read the cursive letter . He read it to them and now they are finally excited to finish learning their cursive letters.