Monday 3/3

A new math game we played today:

The kids worked in their American symbol Book Creator book to add facts about the bald eagle.  

A clip we watched about the bald eagle from Discovery Education:

This afternoon the kids worked on a fun Statue of Liberty art project. Ask your child to tell you about it. 

In Open Circle, we talked about ways to solve problems.

To help us learn and remember the problem-solving steps, we use the colors of a traffic signal: Red = Stop. Yellow = Think. Green = Go. In problem solving, we do the same three things that a traffic signal tells us:

RED LIGHT:

• First, we have to STOP.
In problem solving, that means we have to calm down. Then we tell ourselves the problem and how we feel.

YELLOW LIGHT;

• Second, we have to THINK.
In problem solving, that means we have to be careful and think of many different ways to solve the problem and what would happen if we tried them.

GREEN LIGHT:

• Third, we can GO.
In problem solving, that means we make a plan and try it.