Daily 5 and Math Games!

Daily 5 is an important part of our classroom routines.  Each day students sign up at least once for an activity they would like to do.  They can choose from:

Read to Self

Read to Someone

Writing

Word Work

Listening Center

Students really enjoy this time.  They get to choose what they would like to do and often, who they are working with.  This time is also used for guided reading, and Mrs. Deyoe will work with individual students or with a small group.

At the beginning of the year, we spent time as a class practicing each of the activities on their own before we began choosing them.  We also created anchor charts reminding us what student jobs are during Daily 5 time and what Mrs. Deyoe's job is.

Most of the activities have similar expectations.  

Students are expected to:

~Use a whisper or quiet voice.

~Stay in one spot

~Read or write the whole time.

~Not chatting with friends.

~Get started right away.

This is a picture showing you what our Daily 5 bulletin board looks like.  

Here are some pictures showing what Daily 5 looks like in our classroom.  If you click on them, they will enlarge.

 Just like Daily 5, we often spend some time playing Math games.  Lately we have been working on our doubles facts and learning how they can assist us with subtraction too.  Two of the games we've been playing are Slides and Ladders and Walk the Plank.  We have two versions of Walk the Plank, an addition one and a subtraction one.  Both are equally fun!  You will get a chance to play one of the games at our Student Led Conferences later this week!