Wednesday, October 29th: ACE pg. 10
Woah! Early release days make for some short class periods! Today we raced through what we could and had some good discussions of the...
Tuesday, October 28th: Part of the Whole Square, Science Enrichment Reading (SER): "Zombie Plants"
We reviewed student-designed games for the first half of class, taking a look at why some pieces worked well together while some did not...
Monday, October 27th: Design "Cover-Up 2.0"
Today in Math, students made the pieces for and played a game called "Cover-Up" to help make solid connections to the concept of...
Wednesday, October 22nd: Reducing Fractions with GCF and Science Fair Problem
In Math, students began with a brain warm-up designed to help students see numbers as made up of fractional parts. After that, students...
Tuesday, October 21: Cat Food, "Choose an Number" Equivalent Practice, GCF as a Reducing Strategy
Today in Math, students began all together finding how many pizzas it would take to feed the entire Period 1 Math class if each student...
Monday, October 20th: Equivalent Fractions, Simplifying Fractions, or Jake's Doghouse
Today students reviewed fractional pieces, took a 2-minute assessment on making Equivalent/Simplified fractions in order to sort students...
Thursday, October 16th: No Homework
Today the students circulated through 4 stations of games and investigations that help to build (or remind students of) their 'fraction...
Wednesday October 15th: No Homework!
Today students were busy and productive all through Math, Science, and Intervention Seminar, so there is no homework - just get outside...
Tuesday, October 14th: Comparing Fractions & A Rainforest in Your Gut!
Today students learned 4 different strategies for comparing fractions and tried them out on pairs of fractions of varying difficulty. ...
Thursday, October 9th: Pool Tables Rule
Today students investigated a puzzle during which they drew several pool tables of different dimensions on a piece of graph paper and...
