Capitals and Tally Marks

In language arts, we focused on which words need to be capitalized.  I taught the girls the acronym MINTS--make sure you ask them what it stands for--to help them remember the capital rules.  The girls broke up into groups of 4 where they had to create a sentence that contained at least 1 capital.  After they created their sentence, they wrote it on a sentence strip and had to make the capital letter with their bodies.  

Yesterday, in math, the girls were introduced to tallying.  They watched a short movie on Brain Pop Jr and then played a partner in Rock, Paper, Scissors.  They had to keep track of how they won or tied, by using tallies.  

Today, we continued working with tallies.  The girls learned a fun dice game and raced their partner to see who could be the first to acquire ten tally marks for every number.

We have been discussing what the plot of a story is and used Thomas' Snowsuit by our Author of the Month, Robert Munsch, to help us determine what the opening, conflict, climax, and resolution was in the story.