Growth Mindset / Many Solutions

We've been discussing how a growth mindset can help us learn and conquer new tasks and skills. Working as a team and being open to multiple ways of thinking has also been a focus this week. Not only does this help with learning, but also creates community in our classroom. Through positivity and openness, we can make great strides this year!

Corn Bread

The children picked and dried corn from the school garden, got every kernel off the cobs, and ground it up into cornmeal. Our goal is to have everyone bake corn bread before Thanksgiving.

Here's the recipe: 1 cup cornmeal, 1 cup flour, 1 cup sugar, 1 tsp. salt, 3 teaspoons baking powder, 1 cup milk, 1/2 cup oil, 1 egg....bake at 350 for 35 minutes in a greased 11x7 inch pan.

We're thankful for these teamwork activities! YUM!

Liquid Capacity Game

May 9th Math- Extra Practice

Pure Maple Syrup Bread

I hope many of you get to a Maine Maple Sugar House on Sunday!

Here's the recipe for the bread

the children have been baking:

1 cup milk & 1/4 cup milk (warmed and mixed together)
1 cup maple syrup
2 eggs
2 1/2 cups flour
1 tablespoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt

Mix wet ingredients into dry ingredients.
Bake in a greased 8x8 pan for 45 minutes at 325 degrees.
Cool in pan for 10 minutes, remove from pan and cool completely.

Fraction Practice

Basic Review

I've Been Woken Up By the Microphone Review

Sock It to Me Practice

Partial Products Multiplication

The children have begun to review/learn the partial products method for multiplication.  I will be sending home a letter explaining it so you can help your child at home.  It's very different than the traditional algorithm most of us learned.  Eventually your child will learn the way we learned, but we want children to understand the math behind multiplying larger numbers.

Pumpkin Bread

We harvested a pumpkin from the school garden, cooked it, and mashed it up! Groups of bakers are preparing pumpkin bread as an extra snack for the class.
Here is the recipe:
Mix 1 cup sugar with 1/2 cup oil
Add 2 eggs
Add 1 cup pumpkin
Add dry ingredients:
2 cups flour
1 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. cinnamon
Bake in a greased pan at 350 until toothpick comes out clean. (9x9 pan 30 minutes, loaf pan 50 minutes)