PUPA Stage for a Mealworm...AKA beetle

This week we had a few mealworms transition into the pupa stage, a couple mealworms perish, while the others are still in the mealworm stage.

See below...

It blends in with it's habitat!

It squirms in it's pupa!

Chick-fil-a Night 1/26/11

Robertson Elementary's        

Chick-fil-a Spirit Night

Dine In or Drive Thru

@ El Dorado & Toll Road

Frisco, TX

Wednesday January 26, 2011

 Social Time 5:00pm-8:00pm 

Visit Chick-fil-A, @ El Dorado and Toll road,

between 6:00am and 10:00pm, on our Spirit Night &

you will receive credit for your purchases.

      15% of our ticketed sales will be donated

       by Chick-fil-A to Robertson Elementary.

Please let our cashier know that you are with Robertson Elementary and we will put your ticket in our Chick-fil-A box.

The Valentine Party...

The Valentine Party is February 14^th  2:00 p.m.

The children will enjoy Valentine activities, games, treats and of course, a Valentine Exchange. 

Miss Matt's Class - 22 students

Daniel, Will, Hayden, Kameron, Trinity, Allyson, Endya, DJ, Sterling, Chandler, Savon, Kelby, Kyle, Trace, Davis, Nicholas, Tyler, Jenna, Joel, Ella, Varun, Jared, Miss Matt

  

We are asking each student to send in $3.00 to help cover the expense of the party. 

Thanks!

What is this Mealworm Thing That my Kid keeps talking about???

This is a mealworm!!!

We are studying the life cycle of a beetle.

1st stage it's an egg

--> 2nd stage it's a larva mealworm

-->3rd stage it's a pupa

(turning into a beetle in a cocoon like a butterfly)

--> 4th stage it's the adult beetle

Then, the process starts over again.

Stay tuned for the pupa stage.

snow, Snow, SNow, SNOw, SNOW!!!!

We ventured out for a few minutes to check out the snow today!!

Funny Snow pic!

Serious Snow pic!

Winter is here! Good Times!

Allyson Teaches Dot Math AND How to use this Strategy

Dot Math is a way for students to visually see how much each number represents without counting with their fingers!!

I have taught your students how to draw a picture to solve addition and subtraction problems up to two digit by two digit with regrouping (carrying to the tens place, or borrow from the tens place) and without.

Now, I am starting to teach them how to add and subtract abstractly which is the adding and subtracting that you are familiar with.

HOWEVER,

I am finding that the students don't know that 9  +  6  = 15 without drawing a picture, using tallies, or counting on their fingers.

DOT MATH IS A SOLUTION TO THIS PROBLEM!!!

Your student will NOT have time to draw tallies OR count on their fingers in third grade. The numbers are just TOO big. They will not finish their work and they will become frustrated.

Please help me teach and reinforce this strategy at home.

Eventually your student will not have to draw the dots instead they will just touch the place on the number and then just be able to do this visually.

See the video's below to learn how to use Dot Math:

Dot Math

How to Add Using Dot Math

***Stay tuned for how to subtract using Dot Math***

Miss Matt