The Einsteins of Math

The title of this post came from one of the students' comments today during Math. It was: "Mrs. Hankins, you are making us the Einsteins of Math"!!! I love comments like that and yes they sure felt like it today. We did so much math in an hour lesson today, it was amazing. We did computation, geometry, number sense, graphing, and algebra all in one lesson. Amazing-and the great thing was-the fact that they all were grasping the concepts and understanding and feeling confident. See why I LOVE my job!! Today in Social Studies, we started the tour of the Northeast. Ask your child what mountains are the backbone of the NE and what kind of government we have and if they can answer that, write NE in the planner. We went over the states and capitals and not many of the kids knew too many so make sure you start studying. You know how time flies and the test will be here before you know it. I will quiz them orally on them each day and my hope is that more and more students know more of them daily. If your child is singing a fun water cycle song tonight, it is because we started the water cycle. They love the song and it is one of those you can't get out of your head. Anyway, if you want to hear it and sing along, it is on the side of my blog under favorite links. Tomorrow is Library so get those books returned. My reading kids took their unit 1 assessments today for the new reading series and they weren't too bad for the first try at it. This program is new for all of us. Now we are going to finish "There's A Boy in the Girls' Bathroom" before we move on. Great posters for our bake sale. WOW-I love the creativity!! Thank you to those that got them done last night. For those of you that didn't, they are due tomorrow. Have yours here so you can go and hang one up around the school. Great news for our NILE field trip. Everyone, but one student, was able to buy in for $500. Have a great night.