During our unit on perimeter, we discussed many ways to find the perimeter of shapes. One of the more engaging ways was to use a string to measure the distance around a shape, then measure the string with a yard stick.
Thursday, February 19, 2015
National Day of Reading
On January 23rd, we celebrated the National Day of Reading. Students wore comfy clothes, could bring in their favorite book to share, comfy blankets and pillows, and a flashlight. Other teachers came in as guest readers, we read in the dark with flashlights. Students got a chance to share their favorite books. It was a great day of reading and celebrating!
Thursday, January 8, 2015
Super questions
Our class has been learning about how super readers ask super questions while they read. Today, each table was given a different biography to read. After the table read the biography, they were supposed to write FIVE super questions about their book. We, then, "carouseled" to another table, read their bookend answered this super questions. Our objective for the day was to be able to write/create and answer super questions. Be sure to ask your students what are super questions.
Monday, December 8, 2014
Circles and Stars
Circle and stars is a game students play to practice multiplication facts. Students are partnered using fair sticks. Each set of partners are given 1 dice. Each person has a dry erase board. Partners take turns rolling the dice. First roll is the number of circles drawn and the first factor. Second roll is the number of stars in EACH circle, that is the second factor. Students then multiply or count the number of stars to figure the product. Easy and fun game to play at home.
Bean Division
Today we used beans to show that division is separating into equal groups or to show how many are in each group. Just another tool for solving problems. We spend a lot of time talking about the problem solving tools we have in our tool belt. Tomorrow we will discuss how multiplication and division are opposites... another problem solving tool for our tool belt.
Friday, November 21, 2014
Veterans Day Fun
On Veteran's Day, we took an online scavenger hunt using QR codes to find facts about why Veterans Day is important. We looked on three websites. We also learned about the Unknown soldier. We scanned the QR codes to learn awesome facts about Veteran's Day. We had to write down the important facts.
Friday, November 7, 2014
Book Trailer
One of our reading groups got to be my guinea pigs. They were given the task of reading a book, Because of Mr. Terupt, then use an app called Haiku Deck to create a book trailer to share with others about the book and its important parts. Click on the link below to see their trailers!!
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