We are focusing on learning to recognize number words this week. We read a poem about shamrocks (Look at one shamrock. Look at two shamrocks...). We read the story Five Little Ducks. Our writing lesson was about identifying the problem in a story. Students chose a problem, real or fictional, to write about in their journals. We introduced the nickel in math today. I gave each student a penny and nickel and they did rubbings in their journals. I am posting the poems we use to remember coins so you and your child can recite them at home. We played a game in which we passed around a penny and counted by ones until we got to 10 and the tenth person had to sit down. Next, we passed around a nickel and counted by 5s to 30. The person who said 30 had to sit down.

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