We have been working on counting larger quantities by organizing objects. The children played the game "Fill the Treasure Chest". They practiced solving equations, collecting that number of pennies, and organizing them on ten frames. They worked on sharing the total amount of pennies by counting the groups of ten first and then the extra ones. Another day they counted a large amount of pennies by putting them in groups of ten. We had over 7 dollars in pennies! We also started playing games to practice writing teen numbers with the group of ten first. 

Science 

This week we continued to learn about the rainforest. Students listened to different books about plants and animals. They started writing their own stories about animals and had fun being creative. We also enjoyed a craft time this morning and made different animals like a snake, jaguar, parrot, and sloth. Next week we will start a new unit on entomology.