Welcome back everyone! It’s been great to see everyone’s smiling faces. We also want welcome Ms. Ruchi to her first full Quarter at AHB. She’s been doing a wonderful job and the kids are really into her lesson plans and activities.
Now that we have our awesome new co-teacher, all three of us will be sharing Theme, math and ELA duties, so the blog will of course include comments from everyone.
Here’s a few pics from some fun activities we did this week…. we made sundials in Mr. J’s math group. In Theme, we created a scale model of the solar system using toilet paper (!) and worked a lot with measurements about the solar system in general. We have gone through a thorough introduction to astronomy and why we should care about it, and learned about the scale of distance and astronomy-math connection. We did some challenging, yet fun, astronomy-related math problems in Theme this week, which everyone seemed to enjoy.
Thursday was also Math Pentathlon Day. We always have a blast!
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In Kirsten’s Math group:
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We have practiced fraction addition, subtraction, multiplication & division w/a Math for All Fraction Tic Tac Toe ‘game’, solved lots of fraction word problems from NASA Space math and the Astronomy chapter of Edward Zaccaro’s Challenge Math book and practice mental math and memorization (including, of course, fractions).
Lastly, as a group we chose to do a STEM project called Stranded from Building Math which we will start beginning next week – look for more info on that coming soon!
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In Kirsten & Ruchi’s ELA group:
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George’s Secret Key to the Universe
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In Ruchi’s Math Group:
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