Math

4/1/20

Hi everyone. I will add more to this post. For right now, I am posting a photograph of the wheat grass poster. Please follow the directions and track the growth of your wheat grass. Enjoy the spring break and feel free to contact me with any questions.

4/2/20

Ok, so… all of your wheat grass basket materials are in your parent cubbies. Please pick them up so we can all be planting and growing our wheat grass. Did you know that it is a Persian New Year tradition?

This beautiful symbol of spring is called ‘Sabzeh Nowruz‘ which is the sprouted wheat ‘gandom’ grown for Sofreh Haftseen on Persian New year.  Sabzeh is the symbol of rejunvination and new life and it is one of the ever present items on this very ancient ceremony. Nowruz, also spelled, Norooz, Norouz means ‘new day,’ and it is the celebration of the first day of spring. (from the blog of Persian Mama)

The teachers decided to only give out a project this week since next week is spring break and we wish for families to have a chance to let go of schooling for a little while and relax in this beautiful spring weather. Of course, you are welcome to finish up and continue working on all materials you had previously received.

2nd graders, I really enjoyed our zoom meeting and am looking forward to seeing your creations using the 100s chart. Please also, send me your number grid puzzles so I can share with all students for them to solve. Here is Emma's, see if you can solve it…

3rd graders, we are going to be learning the game of rectangles and I am hoping you will play with you family while we are on break. Check out this board game created by Leif:

also thank you to Riley for showing us his board game during our zoom session last week and everyone who had something to share. Please send photos or attachments or physical copies of your work. And how could I forget? Has anyone found a $1.00 word? Here is a picture of the front cover of the $1.00 word book, it may help you.

The words that represent the images on the cover may be words worth a dollar

Also, a favorite family math game that we are revisiting in our family is called Quirkle. Here are some images below from a family game the other night:

3rd grade materials can be downloaded here

Happy Spring!