During our last month of school, our students have been learning about balance and motion. We started investigating various cardboard shapes: a crayfish, triangle, arch, and arm with a pencil. The students would try to balance these shapes on their fingers, when they realized it wasn't possible without adding weight, we introduced the idea of counterweights (clothespins. Using the counterweight and various positions on the cardboard objects they could make them balance and become stable. The culminating activity for this investigation was using real pencils, wire, and clothespins. After everyone in class was able to make the pencil balance with did a parade under the covered area. They sang and marched! What fun! Next, we will move into spinners.
These dioramas encouraged students to think about what they learned about the desert. They were to add animals and plants that would be found in this environment. They had fun making pop-ups to create a 3-dimensional scene. We have studied attributes of the city, country, desert, forest, beach, and space.
In art, we completed self-portraits that required students to use a variety of mediums. We started by tracing hands and shoes. Then, we drew out the head and bodies paying attention to details of our faces, and favorite clothing items. We colored in small spaces and details using crayons that would resist the watercolor paint we used for the backgrounds and larger areas of the piece. These beautiful pieces of art are hanging in our classroom. We encourage you to stop by to check them out! The students were proud of their work on these.
Below you will see our students participating in several math workplaces. They explored geoboards, tiles, pattern blocks, unifix cubes, etc. Math workplaces are designed to give students opportunities to practice skills that are taught in class. The math games are always a big hit! In unit one, we have been learning about growing patterns, using a glyph, sorting objects by attributes, measurement (inches and yards), and using a line plot to display and analyze data. Moving forward, we will work on addition, subtraction, and probability.
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AuthorKori Bass, Nancy Gilkey, and students of room Z002 Archives
September 2017
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