Game Day Friday
/Happy Friday! On Friday mornings students are invited to bring in board games to share with their friends. Students learn so many skills through playing board games. They learn strategic thinking, problem-solving, number fluency, reading, mental math, and more. They also have a chance to practice winning and losing gracefully- important life skills! On game day Fridays the Otter Popcorn Stand is open for business. Otters may purchase a bowl of popcorn for the price on the menu. Otters use class money to pay and the price changes as Otters become more proficient with money counting. Today the price for a bowl of popcorn was 25 cents. Students who are just learning about coins were asked to find and name the coin that represents 25 cents. Otters who have had experience counting money were asked to show different ways of making 25 cents or were asked to pay with a higher amount and predict the amount of change they would receive. We will continue to practice our money counting skills each Friday at our popcorn stand. Today we also worked together in partners or small groups to create a class poster that depicts ways we can calm our bodies down when our amygdala makes us want to REACT. Each student is practicing being able to access his/her prefrontal cortex to reflect instead of react when feeling stressed. Today we also learned how to upload our photos independently. We each have our own album on our desktop computer to save our own photos and videos. We are working on being independent with our tools in the Otters classroom.
