Let's Talk Math!

This week we have been hard at work on counting by 2's, 5's, and 10's! The students are doing a great job with their skip counting and through Math Workshop, we are able to do many different engaging activities that really help the students grasp these concepts of skip counting and patterns in numbers. When students are on the computers for their "Math Fact" station, they are busy working at their own speed and level on practicing their math facts to build their fluency and automaticity on a site called "Xtra Math". I am able to monitor their progress and print out their reports. They love this computer site. Here are some pictures of various activities done in small groups this week. We are loving our Math Workshop time! 

 Building our counts by 5's and 10's!

 

Other activities in small groups involving skip counting and place value

Math Workshop!

Math Workshop is up and running and I have to say, so far, so good! The students are learning the routines and how to look at the pocket chart to find which station they are at and when. The students move through four different rotations in our Math Workshop block. One station is always meeting with me. When the students meet with me, they are working on skills and concepts at their level. They bring white boards (slates) and markers, or their math journals and pencils, and we do a lot of work on my large white board together. While one group is meeting with me, another is working on math facts at the Math Fact station (the computers), one is doing a hands-on activity (working with math materials-sometimes it is a game) and another is doing seat work (usually an independent activity that involves pencil and paper). Here are some pictures of one day in Math Workshop. 

Teacher station, working with the 100's chart!

 

Seat Work!

Hands On!