Day 2 Combo Boot Camp

The camo continues!  The troops showed up for day 2 ready for high energy learning!  This little sweetie even had the great honor of wearing her father's dog tags!  I am so happy she did because it started our morning off with a great discussion.  We looked closely at the dog tags and really read and discussed the "warrior ethos" and "army values."  The values included loyalty, duty, respect, selfless service, honor, integrity, and personal courage.  The day before, they had tracked points.  Students got points for working hard at their "missions," following commands, and exhibiting values like respect, integrity and service. The students knew that they needed 40 points to earn a dog tag.  After seeing the real deal and learning about the values, this squad was ready to achieve.

For English Language Arts on Day 2, the students had to apply what they had practiced in their stations on day one.  First graders, examined more sentences and had to determine if they were complete or incomplete.  The sorted the sentences onto a parachute.

Second graders learned about simple and compound sentences.  They too read several different sentences.  They had to determine if the the sentence was compound and circle the coordinating conjunction.



Both grade levels enjoyed silent reading time in the tires.  Who knew?

 
In math, we had four different drill stations like day one in reading...with the students favorite part, 90 seconds of exercise between each rotation.  The students earned lots of points towards their dog tags during math.

One of the math stations was called Sergeant.  It would be a great game to play at home.  This game is a fun way to practice missing addends.  You need three players.  Two players duel while the third is the Sergeant.  The two players each hold a card up to their foreheads without looking at their own card.  The Sergeant tells the players the sum of the two numbers.  The first player to correctly identify the card he/she is holding wins the round.  This is also a great game for intermediate students, just use multiplication instead of addition.



After the math stations, students were given their last round of points.  They tallied their points on their paper dog tags.  Then, the students had to add two days worth of points to see if they hit their total.  You have never seen first and second graders add two digit numbers so quickly.  Don't tell the first graders they shouldn't be able to add those big numbers yet!  Students got to bring their totals to me and receive the dog tags.  Every student was able to reach the 40 point goal.  Great job!