Coffee House and Place Value Centers

A cup of coffee you can sip and not gulp, a quiet space, and reading while still wide awake--3 things that elude many of us in our busy lives.  This morning, however, we were lucky to enjoy all 3 together as a class. We want to thank all the parents and special friends who participated in our first Coffee House this morning. The girls loved having you all here to celebrate their milestone of independent reading.

We are encouraging the girls to use our Word Wall as a reading and writing aid.  Today we played Word Wall Bingo (which the girls love) and it was wonderful to watch the girls as they grow more comfortable with these words.

The past several days the girls have been learning place value by working with base 10 blocks.  They have learned that a cube represents one, a ten cube rod represents ten and a flat block represents a hundred.  The girls have been writing and modeling numbers using these blocks.  Today, they worked around the room in three centers: base 10 matching, Montessori Numbers app and a hundreds chart mystery picture.