I figured on picture day it seemed fitting to post some pictures on the blog….
In other news, we had a great day in B2. We talked about where we live and our community. Often times I tell kiddos they live in Oregon and they say, “no, I live in Keizer!” We read a great book that starts with kids having a bedroom, then a house, then a street, then a neighborhood, then a city, then a state then a country. The book goes on and on (which we will finish at another point in the year), but it was great to discuss those ideas as a group. We did some addition today, which they told me was “so easy”- which makes me glad to hear! We still have a long way to go with computational fluency and learning strategies to solve and addition problems, not to mention story problems. But, I am glad they think it is easy at this point. We have had a couple conversations about how sometimes when we learn new things the concepts are tricky and we get frustrated because it is a new idea. Other times, when something comes easy to us we think it is so fun and super easy. Either way, I’m glad they were excited to do addition today—the skip counting seemed a bit overwhelming yesterday. We will continue to work on lots of math concepts. There is so much to learn and a whole school year ahead of us to take advantage of.
