Am I seeing double?

This week in math our focus was on doubles in addition and subtraction.  Our main question was "What does it mean to double a number?"  On Monday the students did some doubles work and then used the Double Cootie Catcher to explore more with doubles.  They were also introduced to some fun videos on doubles.  Check out this video that seemed to be the most popular in the class.

 

On Tuesday the class got to play Doubles Concentration.  It really had some of the kids thinking about addition problems and their answers.  If the first card they found was 5+5, then the match they were looking for was 10.  It seemed to be a fun game for the students, and I think they really know their doubles facts now.

The class made mini Doubles Facts books.  The students had to write in the equations for each picture and the answer.  Then of course, we had to decorate them.

On Thursday of this week, the kids picked cards and had to determine if the problem was a doubles problem or a doubles + 1 problem (or near doubles).  Once the students had solved the double, solving the doubles + 1 (or near doubles) problem was very easy because it was the original      answer  + 1.

Tuesday was the first time that students who turned in a coupon for Lunch with me were able to redeem them.  We had a nice group of three students (not all wanted to be in the picture) and it was really fun to have lunch with a few kids from the class. 

Throughout this last week, we also had students who turned in a coupon to pick a GoNoodle activity for the whole class.  I am definitely starting to see the more popular choices among the students.  Some of the students have been asking if they can color in some of our champs from GoNoodle, so here is a link to the Coloring Pages if they want to get a little creative.  This is just something they can do for fun, if they choose.

We also had a student turn in a coupon to share a story with the class.  It was very exciting to hear a fellow student read to us.  We heard "Green Eggs and Ham" by Dr. Seuss.

Today, the class was introduced to a new website, called Moby Max.  Here the students can do work in any subject.  Today we focused as using it as a math tool.  The class got very excited when they found out they could earn badges AND game time for answering questions correctly.  We will be visiting this site 2-3 times each week, during different periods of the day.  If for some reason your student wants to try some of this at home, please e-mail me at rcrook@kvusd.org or message me on Class Dojo and I will get you their username and password for the site.

A huge thank-you to all of the parents of Room 106.  I was able to meet with everyone for Parent-Teacher conferences during this week.  It was so great to meet everyone and get to know how we can work together to help the children.