Math
The game of Rectangles, latest installment in our understanding of multiplication. Such a fun game! I encourage you to play at home. You can create a grid on graph paper or use a sheet I will place in your parent cubbies. We play without the 10 bonus points.
We have also just begun telling multiplication stories such as: There were 4 unicorns and each had seven polka dots. How many polka dots in all?. Try it out at home.
The class has been so focused and motivated this week. Students are working on various task cards, patterns in multiples, multiplication wrap ups; as well as playing the games of Rectangles and Circles and Stars. Go 3rd graders!
3-15-19
We are beginning candy box research (I have introduced the lesson to some of our students), an investigation that continues the exploration of multiplication arrays in the format of boxed chocolates. If you buy a flat box of chocolates, try to guess the array: 12x2, 4x6, 3x3. Then tell your child how many are in the box total and make new guesses. Finally, open and compare with the array you discover inside. Of course, gobble them up so you can start over.
I led a graphing activity that we did over two days and students practiced finding coordinates and plotting points to create this Too Late Turtle, or Precious, as Juliet named hers:
3/20/19
I introduced a $1 word activity and students are fully immersed in searching for $1 words. Sofia and Sophie discovered our first word ‘Wednesday’. Celeste discovered the second word ‘quarter’. Try at home.
