Have a look with your mathematician. Maybe you can help them fix some backwards numbers, or make any small corrections. You can even give him/her a bonus question for more practice or an extra challenge.
Friday, 28 February 2014
Math check-in
I think it's about time to check-in on our math, so today students are bringing home a math page to share with you. We used our skip-counting skills to do some repeated addition, and checked our counting by drawing a picture. We are coming along well with this, and will get into more addition and subtraction in the next couple weeks.
Have a look with your mathematician. Maybe you can help them fix some backwards numbers, or make any small corrections. You can even give him/her a bonus question for more practice or an extra challenge.
Have a look with your mathematician. Maybe you can help them fix some backwards numbers, or make any small corrections. You can even give him/her a bonus question for more practice or an extra challenge.
Thursday, 27 February 2014
Un-gingerbread!
Our surprise activity after writing instructions for how to decorate a gingerbread man was to actually decorate a gingerbread man! Except it wasn't gingerbread - just bread, and we didn't use icing - just cream cheese and jam. Even though they were just every day snack ingredients, the kids were still excited that their bread was cut out like a gingerbread man and that they got to eat it after it was decorated. Ask your student how they decorated their "bonhomme en pain normal"!
I must also mention how impressed I was with the predictions our scientists made yesterday. Each scientist made a written prediction in their journal about whether they thought fruit would float or sink. They made some great connections, for example, if people can float, and we're big, then big fruits can probably float. Students generally thought that one of 3 things was important when making this prediction: weight, size, or air content. They did not all agree that heavy things would sink, or that big things would float, but what was important was that they justified their thinking very well. Later we did our experiment and found that an unpeeled orange (and the peel of an orange) floats, while a peeled orange sinks. The reason for this has something to do with air and the peel. Ask your scientist for more details of this experiment, and check out my previous post for a way to continue this experiment at home.
I must also mention how impressed I was with the predictions our scientists made yesterday. Each scientist made a written prediction in their journal about whether they thought fruit would float or sink. They made some great connections, for example, if people can float, and we're big, then big fruits can probably float. Students generally thought that one of 3 things was important when making this prediction: weight, size, or air content. They did not all agree that heavy things would sink, or that big things would float, but what was important was that they justified their thinking very well. Later we did our experiment and found that an unpeeled orange (and the peel of an orange) floats, while a peeled orange sinks. The reason for this has something to do with air and the peel. Ask your scientist for more details of this experiment, and check out my previous post for a way to continue this experiment at home.
Tuesday, 25 February 2014
Bonus Gymnastics
Area 24 will be having an extra gymnastics period tomorrow (Wednesday), in addition to Thursday. Please remind them to wear their special outfits. Thanks!
Would you like to see what gymnastics looks like?? I snuck in today and took some pictures!
Would you like to see what gymnastics looks like?? I snuck in today and took some pictures!
Looks like a ton of fun!
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