Please check your calendars to see if you might be available to sign-up for helping with our next STEM Engineering Challenges in our regularly scheduled math classes on Thursday, December 15, and Friday, December 16. Plus if you volunteer you will get to witness the fun we'll be having first hand. 3rd grade @ 1:30-2:30pm 4th grade @ 8:55-9:55am 5th grade @ 10:30-11:30am This week's blog focus will be on third graders. First off, third grade language arts students have resumed their studies with me for the month of December. To kick off our week together, they all presented their book projects from our last novel study on The Green Book, a story about a group that leaves earth to establish a new colony on a distant planet called Shine. Below are some pictures of their work. Some students dediced to create an invention that the people of Shine could use while some students chose to make a mind map of Shine, document the lifecycle of the moth people, or fill in a Venn diagram of the similarities/differences between Shine and Earth. After closing up our study of The Green Book, we have been learning how to participate in literature circles this week and will begin reading short novels this week and the students will be leading and participating in their small-group discussions. Third grade math students are finishing up the last multiplication and division unit of the year. They have done a great job beginning to learn and master their basic facts. But one of the most important skills in math is understanding when in life you will need to use the various operations. This week we spent considerable time not only solving problems but also creating problems so they could continue to explore those areas of life where combining equal groups or dividing equal groups is necessary. The pictures below show our activites where they had to write a real-world story problem requiring either mutliplication or division. Then they had to solve each other's problems, and final check each other's work. Much more fun than Mrs. Bean making all the problems and checking their work! Finally this week, I would like to share some pictures I took Friday of my small 2nd grade group. Since I am only part-time, my schedule is limited to work with the primary grades. But on Fridays I do have half an hour where I can challenge some of the 2nd grade students who have presented a need for more problem solving and logic. In the pictures here, these gentlemen are solving "Logic Links" - using the clue provided, they have to place the right color of chips in the right order. They were AMAZING! In our half hour, most of them solved at least 10 different puzzles!
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