LEAP October Class Notes

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LEAP October Class Notes
Message From Mrs. DuBois
First Grade Small Group
Second Grade Small Group
Third Grade Small Group
Second Grade Math
Third Grade Math
Third Grade Project Group
Kinder- garten Small Group
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October LEAP Notes from Carol
DuBoisThe mediocre teacher tells the good one
explains the superior one shows the great one
inspires.Author unknownI have had a great
start to my LEAP year. The children are so
enthusiastic when they arrive at the LEAP room
door. I have truly enjoyed each day with the
kindergarten and primary students. They are
wonderful individuals with an amazing amount of
creativity. During the month of October the
DWP highlighted skill will be social interaction.
We will stress the importance of making eye
contact as well as greeting everyone we meet here
at SUV.The real fault is to have faults and
not try to mend them.-Confuscius
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LEAP First Grade Small Group

• We continue to begin each class with a brain
  teaser.
• During the month of October we will be working on
  visualizing the subject of a picture, pairing
  items that go together, recognizing even and odd
  numbers, and making a creative picture from a
  random line. We will be completing a number of
  group memory games as well as problem solving
  activities.

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LEAP Second Grade Small Group

• We continue to begin each class session with a
  brain teaser.
• During the month of October, we will be working
  on quick drawing 30 items, working with words
  that begin with the letter B, completing a
  Halloween word search, and inventing a secret
  code for an originally disguised secret agent.
  We will work on a number of group creative
  thinking activities as well as discuss problem
  solving possibilities.

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LEAP Third Grade Small Group

• We will continue to begin each class session with
  a brain teaser.
• During the month of October, well be learning
  Egyptian writing, solving an Egyptian critical
  thinking puzzle, designing patterns from a maze
  of dots, and improving visual imagery by copying
  patterns onto a series of dots as well as several
  group critical thinking and problem solving
  activities.

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Second Grade Math Group

• We begin each class session with a brainteaser.
• During the month of October, we will be playing
  bingo with even and odd numbers, visualizing and
  completing patterns on a series of dots,
  completing a challenging triangle making
  activity, and well end the month with a few
  Halloween math activities.

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Third Grade Math Group

• We begin each class session with a brain teaser.
• In the month of October we will complete magic
  squares, complete a number story using logic,
  work on an activity using division of fours and
  fives, complete the challenge of a math crossword
  puzzle, and well end the month with Halloween
  math activities.

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LEAP Third Grade Project Group

• Throughout October we will be working on a number
  of hands-on and group projects. Well begin with
  each student building a wind-powered car and then
  move on to a group project of building a tall
  tower of power in groups of two or three. Well
  complete some activities dealing with optical
  illusions, and end the quarter making a photo
  picture essay.

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Kindergarten Small Group

• I begin each class session with a brainteaser. I
  am introducing the children to ways one can begin
  the reasoning necessary to solve a brainteaser
  whether it is visually or orally presented. They
  are developing quite well.
• During the month of October we will be working on
  sequence and logic activities as well as
  mind-building math activities. We will be
  working on matching items that go together in
  some way and designing a picture developed from
  some lines that are already drawn on the paper.