Mattos Mountaineers: August 2014

Monday, August 25, 2014

Estimating to Add!

Check out these fun games to practice your estimating skills!
Math Man
Ice Ice Maybe

Saturday, August 23, 2014

Today we were reviewing for our rounding quiz. We played a game boys against girls. Things sure get competitive, but they all worked together wonderfully! In the end...I ended up giving them very challenging problems to try to break the tie, but both teams rose to the challenge and we could never come up with a winner! :)

Reading Groups

Although our schedule has been CrAzY...we did make it to reading groups some this week. We are getting a chance to split up into small groups. One day we work and read with Mrs. Mattos, one day we practice partner reading, we practice spelling words, and we get to play on the blog games.

Shake, Rattle, & ROLL!

We have been playing many dice games in our groups. We are learning to create numbers, name numbers, and show numbers. After we create a number of our own, we are rounding the numbers to the nearest decade or hundred with our number lines.

Rounding with a Number Line

We have been learning all about place value! We are using what we know about numbers to round to the nearest ten (decade numbers) or hundreds. We are learning to round since it will make it easier to do mental math in our heads. Tens and hundreds numbers make it easy to add quickly! :)

First Day JiTtErS!

We read a story all about the first day. Many of us have JITTERS! We learned that even teachers get the jitters! :) These are some of our pictures of us making words out of the letters FIRST DAY JITTERS. Enjoy! :)