Going to Antarctica!

If you haven't heard already, the first graders boarded an imaginary plane today for Antarctica! We’ve begun our trip as part of an integrated theme for math and prepared by completing passports, making a packing list, and learning about Antarctica. For the next month, we will be studying the physical attributes, behaviors, and life cycles of 6 different penguins. The mathematics students use focus around measurement, sorting, map-reading, and graphing. We will also look at patterns, and create and solve story problems. More to come!

Lobster Picture Problems in Math

Today our class explored the processes of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division by understanding and solving story problems about lobsters. Since lobster's legs come in sets of 10, students are able to practice counting by 1's, 5's, and 10's as they solve problems such as: 5 lobsters are walking by the rocks. How many legs are moving?

After solving example problems, the first graders created their own lobster picture problems. Next, we will work to solve each other’s problems and share our strategies and solutions.