In Math today I introduced the Ten Frame which is a graphic tool that allows you to quickly "see" how many.  We then played a 10 frame memory game where students had to flip two cards and match the numeral with the number of dots on the Ten Frame.

Today we started a mini unit on The Little Red Hen.  We talked about how a folk tale is a story that was told a long time ago and then over time people decided to write it down so there are lots of different versions of The Little Red Hen.  We will be learning about characters and comparing how the stories are the same and different.  We also made a chart of things that we can write and draw about.  Students came up with lots of different ideas and tomorrow they will choose one idea to begin their first story!