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Thursday, May 31, 2018

Petting Zoo!

Every year we get to go on a mini-field trip to the high school to see their Petting Zoo. It's always an exciting time!

Here is a video with lots more pictures!

The Shawano County 4H program partners with the Shawano County Association for Home and Community Education (HCE) to provide all first graders at Hillcrest & LEADS with pumpkin seeds to plant. Students are encouraged to bring home the pumpkin seeds we plant, take care of them all summer, and enter them in the Shawano County Fair in the fall.

Maybe one of our pumpkin plants will earn first prize!

Compound Words

During literacy workshop we are learning about compound words. We can read, write, and spell by breaking apart words in smaller parts.
We brainstormed a big list of compound words.

We chose our favorite compound words and made books similar to this:

What is your favorite compound word?

Mrs. Melotik and Her Bead String

Mrs. Melotik came in and taught us about her "Expanding Expression" tool. It looks like this:

It can help us move from simple words to detailed descriptions. This is how it works:

We played a game while we practiced using the tool.

Thank you, Mrs. Melotik!

Geometry Math Games

We're working on geometry in our math workshop.
We're playing lots of games...

...new math stations...

...and we played the game, SET. It's a great critical thinking game.

A set is a group of 3 cards that have four kinds of features: color, number, shape, and shade. In the group of 3 cards, if all have the same property of each feature or all have different properties of the feature, it is a set. It is easy to tell if something isn't a set...if 2 are and 1 isn't, it's *not* a set.

Here are some sets:

In this one, they all have the same shape, shade, and number and have all different colors. It is a set.

In this one, they have all different numbers, all different shapes, all different colors, all different shades, and all different numbers.

Here are some more examples:

The bottom is not a set. It has all the same color, number and all different shapes, but two are the same shade and one isn't. If two are and one isn't, it's not a set.

Can you find a set?