Decomposing Numbers

In Math we have been working on decomposing numbers, or finding the parts when given a whole.  Today we worked with the number 8.  Students were asked to draw a row of 8 crackers and then come up with different ways to share with a friend and fill it in on a number bond some combinations were:

8=1+7
8=2+6
8=3+5
8=4+4

In writing we looked a chart to remember how to add lots of details to illustrations and to write a sentence that matches the illustration.

Our read aloud was Fly, Butterfly which a student brought in to share since we have been studying insects.  We learned how a caterpillar hatches out of an egg, forms a chrysalis and then turns into a butterfly.  We also learned that thousands of monarch butterflies migrate to Mexico each winter and that we can help make sure butterflies have food by planting milkweed and brightly colored flowers.