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We Got Math ~ LFS Math-letes

First, second, fifth and sixth grade students could not get enough math yesterday as they took part in World Maths Day 2010 competition. Students logged in and played at home and at school against other students around the world in live games of mental math.  Many got permission to stay at school until 6:00 to compete.  Some stayed up late last night.  When a second grade student made it to the next level and said to his teacher, "I'm so proud of myself."  "This is a truly unique world event and a fantastic way to promote numeracy."

Internet connectivity issues sidelined the "mathletes" in 5th/6th grade for the first six hours of competition.  Still, with the hearts of champions, they never gave up and by the close of competition students had completed 2,902 games and answered a total of 57,135 questions correctly.

The first grade students completed a total of 517 games, answering 7,842 problems correctly!  The second grade students completed a total of 695 games, answering a total of 15,516 problems correctly!  Together they answred 23,358 problems correctly over the past two days.

5/6 Students and Families Celebrate Student Learning at the Greek Fest

The 100th Day of School

Today the kindergarten and first and second grade students celebrated the 100th day of school! The classes enjoyed updating their daily calendar routines to reach 100, as well as counting to 100 by 1s, 5s, 10s, 20s, and 25s.

 

 

Pre-K has been working on the railroad!

The Pre-K Transportation theme has "travelled" through boats and planes and has landed on trains.  Today the students presented much of their information at Gathering.  Pictured here are Pre-K students and the steam engine that they created together.  From left to right students made the engine (notice the smoke!), the tender (where the coal is kept to feed the engine), the gondola car (carrying pipes), the tanker (carrying milk), the flatbed (carrying railroad tracks), the hopper car (unloads from the bottom), the box car (carrying paper), the cattle car (with a ramp), and the caboose (where the brakemen ride).

Who is that with Tr. Jill?

A Snowy Day at LFS

Pre-K Students are Flying

Students in Pre-K are flying high during their Transportation theme! Their loft has been transformed into a jet after many hours of painting and gluing.

"Are you our mother?" asked the bats.

First and second grade students performed their re-worked nocturnal animal version of Are You My Mother? to an enormous crowd of families and students at Gathering.

Food Drive is a Success!

The third/fourth grade class and the kindergarten class teamed up once again to organize a food collection for the emergency food cupboard in Lansdowne.  Kindergarten students made use of the cans they collected for some interesting math activities before making the delivery.  They used the USDA food pyramid to categorize each of the cans into separate food groups and then graphed them on a giant cloth grid. 

The two classes then bundled up and delivered the food to the food cupboard. 

Exploring Adjectives

Tr. Jill's 1/2 graders have been exploring the parts of speech.  This week they learned about adjectives.

On Monday the class defined adjectives: a word that describes a noun.  Together the students listed a few nouns and several adjectives that could describe those nouns.  

On Tuesday each student chose two objects in the classroom to describe.  They jotted a few adjectives that described each object on a post-it note and then stuck the note to the object.         

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