Look into the Past

Look into the past……

What we did 2 weeks ago

1^st Grade LA

Word Magic: During the week we discussed how anagrams are like magic. We saw how anagrams have the ability to change a word like ‘aunt’ into ‘tuna’ or ‘Mrs. Eton’ into ‘monster’. We read a very cute book called The Great Show and Tell Disaster. This book is filled with silly anagrams. The students absolutely loved it!

1^st Grade MA

Area: We are continuing our study on area. The students have been working with targets for our Pom-Pom toss game. We looked at targets they designed using 4 square units. We thought about what kind of target we would rather toss a ball at, a square one or a long rectangular one, and why? Before this week, all of our targets had the same square units. On Tuesday we looked at targets with different square units and discussed why and how a target with a smaller square unit may be easier to hit with a ball. Students needed to realize, just because a target has a larger area does not men it will be easier to hit. This brings the students back to our square vs. rectangle discussion.

2^nd Grade LA

Good Bye Edward: Last week we finished up our Edward Tulane book and lesson. The students finished their crossword puzzle and gave me a list of 10 words they correlated with The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane. On Thursday all the students wrote in wrote in their journals. I had them tell me what lesson they learned from Edward and provide an example. I also had them write which one of the ‘7 Habits’ Edward learned during his journey and provide an example of this too.

2^nd Grade MA

Think Deeply: In math we ended lesson 3 ‘Car Seats for Egg Passengers’. In this think deeply the students needed to tell me what they would change about their car seat design and why. I will be looking for changes made based on the experiment results. Next, they needed to draw a prototype of a new car seat design using exactly 40 cm of material. They had to include how much of each material was used for the new car seat. I will be looking to make sure students labeled their new prototypes correctly.

3^rd Grade LA

Finishing Fables: We made a large Folk Tale definition book a few months ago. Each time we study a new folk tale we write the definition, including its elements, along with examples of it, in our book. We then began to write our own fable. The students were given a few different fable writing maps to use as guides along with a check list. I can’t wait to see what their imaginations came up with.

3^rd Grade MA

Area: This week we back tracked a little, mainly because I skipped a lesson. We all have those weeks!! We are still studying area, more specifically, the area of odd shapes. The students drew a sunny side up egg on square centimeter grid paper. I then asked them to find the area. The purpose of this was to see what methods the students used to figure out the area of full and partial square units. This is our stepping stone for next week.

4^th Grade LA

TIME LINES: Time lines SHOULD HAVE BEEN turned in and we will be working on our monologues. The monologues will need to be memorized and last between 1.5-2 minutes long. These will be read while the student’s slide show is going on behind them.The students will use their time line as a guide for their monologue. They will need to add more detailed information about their time line events as they speak to the class.

4^th Grade MA

Rotation: This week studied the last of the three transformations, rotation. The students worked on the worksheet “Turn Me Around”. This worksheet had the students start with a shape, an arrow or an “L”. They then needed to rotate it a given degree stated on the pater. I had them mentally manipulate the shapes before cutting actual shapes out to make sure they were correct. We discussed what strategies they used for rotating the shapes in their head.  A strategy we discussed was to focus on a point or a vertex of the shape. Some find it easier to imagine rotating a point vs. the entire shape.