Authors Chair/Ones, tens, hundreds exchange

Our young writers got the opportunity to share with the class some of their great writing this afternoon in our authors chair. Giving the students an audience for their writing helps give them a purpose for their writing. They seem to really enjoy sharing all of their great work and the students are engaged listening to each author share. A couple of our writing prompts this week were "when I grow up..." and "last night I had a dream about..." or "I would like to have a dream about..." Both prompts are trying to get them to be as creative and imaginative as possible with their writing to hopefully ignite a passion for writing. Here are a few pictures from some of the students sharing their writing.

After sharing our writing we moved in to some math to end our day. We have been working really hard to develop a deep understanding of ones and tens with a greater understanding of our base 10 system of counting. We used cuisenaire rods, cubes, and blocks to show the relationship between 1s, 10s, and 100s. Students rolled a die to capture cubes and when they got to 10+ cubes they could exchange it in for a rod that was equivalent to 10 cubes. Once they got 10 rods they could exchange them for a block worth 100. It was very similar to our penny/nickel exchange game we played earlier in the year.