“I prefer to make up my own quotes and attribute them to very smart people, so that I can use them to win arguments”
- Albert Einstein (Wait... what?) IMPORTANT INFORMATION If all the LEGO bricks ever manufactured were clipped on top of one another, they would make a tower ten times as high as the distance to the Moon. IMPORTANT DATES November 29: Elder Shirley Hill OUR DAY 53 days under our belt, 127 days to go! Math! Rocks! Literacy! Running! Fun Lunch! The One and Only Ivan! Singing! Library! That was our day in a nutshell. Some students put on their critiquing hats, looking at a variety of rocks and minerals websites, and then judging whether it was a good site or not and WHY. Always the WHY. Other students wrote 10 Interesting Facts About Rocks and Minerals. They will continue working on this tomorrow, and then switch to the other station. After music, more students completed their The Best Part of Me writing, and then did a Word Work station. After recess, we dove into the world of Venn diagrams, where table groups were given two different rocks, and they had to use the Physical Properties of Rocks to compare and contrast the two. After lunch, we looked at out three-dimensional crystal shapes they made from nets, and looked at the three different parts: faces, edges, and vertices. As we were looking at the shapes, and then reflecting that the students love building with their creations, I proposed to the class that maybe we could make BIG CRYSTAL STRUCTURES using a variety of nets, different paper, paint, and then they need to figure out what type of fastener to use to hold it together (testing tapes, glues, clips, …). BOOM! Math outcomes! Describe the characteristics of 3-D objects and 2-D shapes, and analyze the relationships among them. BOOM! Science outcomes! Topic A Rocks and Minerals: 3-5 Demonstrate knowledge of materials that comprise Earth’s crust, and demonstrate skill in classifying these materials Topic B - Building with a Variety of Materials: 3-7 Construct structures, using a variety of materials and designs, and compare the effectiveness of the various materials and designs for their intended purposes. Topic C - Testing Materials: 3-8 Evaluate the suitability of different materials and designs for their use in a building task. We also added two more ways to represent a number to our Visual Journal Anchor Chart. We will finish off with the number line tomorrow and dive into playing with our deconstructed numbers. End of day ended with Library and then The One and Only Ivan. Cheerios! Ms Lauf Comments are closed.
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