First week!

This week was a very exhausting but wonderful first week. Typical first graders...it's a big transition year from Kindergarten to 1st grade.

To get some fun assessment data, we have students make letters, numbers, shapes, and animals out of Play-doh. It really helped us to see if students were reversing letters and numbers and if they were familiar with shapes. Today was free play day with the Play-doh. Here's my favorite sculpture!

In math, we made pictures with pattern blocks. I walked around and talked to them about the pictures they made, asking them to count the number of blocks, identify shapes, and let them explain things they discovered while working with the blocks. Here are a few pics they made.

My class definitely worked well with manipulatives!