Math
Over the last few weeks, students completed several activities involving place value.
Above, Hank is playing The Five Tower Game with Daxton, in which partners roll two dice and create a tower of snap blocks from the sum of their dice. When they each have five towers, each student will create trains of ten from the snap blocks and write down the total in tens and ones. After playing five rounds students add their totals using a calculator. Hank has a timer next to him since he was the class timer for the week.
How Many Pockets was another hands on place value activity which required collaboration from the students. In this activity, students placed one snap block in each pocket, then created a train of snap blocks. All students combined their snap blocks and then divided them into trains of ten. Rian usually had 11 or more pockets and helped bring our total much higher.
Students also practiced place value by rolling dice and creating a number, for example 52. They then wrote the number in expanded form: 50 + 2 = 52 and in words: fifty-two.
In a whole group activity, students colored in a 100s chart to form the word Hi by following clues I read aloud. Then, each student created their own Color It On The 100s chart puzzle by writing clues to match their pictures. I love giving them the opportunity to create questions, not always be the ones answering them. And since this was a challenging activity, we were lucky to have support from Grandma Pat and Michael.
I missed singing and doing movement with this group, so we sang "Shepherds Hey" (Anna Rainville's book of songs) which is a fun song that incorporates whole body movement and crossing the midlines. I also have been skip counting with them in English as we do movements which cross the midline, and counting forwards and backwards in Spanish and Arabic as we do whole body movement.
And....they continue to be absorbed by their number scrolls, with Sophie and Sofia right around 1000 and Daxton and Kajamir beginning Roman numeral scrolls.
Below, Sophie created mandalas and provided color copies for all students.
