Last night the PTO hosted a math night so parents could sit in the classroom and do a math lesson. The days of memorizing math tables is over and conceptual math is here. Savannah got to show me the 'games' she plays in school. But, they are not really games- they area to lessons with manipulatives (they practice math with their hands). They learn pre-geometry concepts by finding how many ways they can fill in a shape outline with different colorful shape tiles. It was really interesting. But, math night doesn't often draw a big crowd, so our crazy principal said if 100 kids showed up with their parents she and the asst principal would kiss a pig. We had about 350 kids, I think!!
Before mrs sellers kissed the pig she made a big show if putting lipstick on , and then putting mr. Potato head lips in her mouth. The kids went nuts :-)
Here's a peek at what her school looks like. It's a fun place, isn't it? As you can see- we were the last ones there!!
Even this morning she was still abuzz about the piggy. She said she's going to make mrs sellers a card to thank her for being such a fun principal layer today.
