We have had some fun decorating and making our classroom showcase who we are. Fifth graders created math pendants that tell facts about themselves in number form. We watched a Sesame Street music video (I know they are a little old for that, but who doesn't love Sesame Street?!) and thought about who are we are as students, athletes, and human beings. The "I am" window is a work in progress as I have not seen all of my groups yet this year and want to have them add to it. Fifth grade math began our first unit of curriculum this week. We have begun with a number sense unit covering various topics that will feed into our entire year of math. This week we refreshed our memories about prime & composite numbers and factors & multiples. We also began to explore greatest common factors and least common multiples, and chatted about why this is useful (fraction work especially.) Yesterday they learned how to find the prime factors of a number. One of the important ways I like students to record their learning in my class is to keep a math notebook. We create visual displays to help organize new concepts. The notebook becomes their own math reference throughout their time in my class, and they get to take it home at the end of 5th grade as a great memory of everything they learned in GT math. Below are some examples of work the 5th graders did in their notebooks this week: Fourth grade math students have begun exploring geometry vocabulary and naming rules. I forgot to take pictures, but yesterday we had fun outside with sidewalk chalk reviewing all that we have learned so far about lines, line segments, rays, and angles. The conventions of naming each of these is probably the biggest challenge (remembering to use two letters for all lines/line segments/rays and three for angles and not forgetting to label them appropriately. We'll continue this work next week by exploring quadrilaterals and all the quirks that come with that study (squares are always rectangles but all rectangles are not squares; a square is a rhombus but all rhombi are not squares.) One last note for next week, PSD is looking at adopting new math currriculum for the next school year. I am on that adoption committee, and we have meetings all day next Wednesday and Thursday, September 16 & 17, so I will be out of the building. Have a great weekend!
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