We are down to the last few days of school! It is hard to keep everyone on task and focused these days but we certainly try! This morning we went outside for our math lesson. We used different-sized containers to compare capacity. Students used sand to pour from one container to another to see which container had the greatest capacity.
We walked down to the park for lunch and then had a great time in the pool. Both the water and weather were just wonderful! The walk back up the hill was a little more difficult!
I will try to post one more article about our year-end trip next week. Have a great weekend.
We are trying to finish up a few math things before school comes to an end. Today we began a short unit on equality. I started the lesson by reading a story called Equal Shmequal to the students. It was about some animal friends who want to play tug-of-war, but they can't figure out how to make equal teams. After listening, the students used balance scales and cubes to represent the different animals (1 cube=mouse, 2 cubes= turtle, 3 cubes=rabbit, etc.) Their task was to explore as many different ways as possible to show the animals balancing (Example:1 rabbit=1 mouse + 1 turtle). The pictures below show the students working together. (It was also Hat Day today!)
This week we have been working on Geometry in Math. We learned the names of 5 geometric objects: cone, sphere, cylinder, rectangular prism and cube. We learned how to sort them according to different attributes: what they have (edges, points, vertices, curved or flat faces) and what they can do (roll or stack). Today, students worked in small groups to build and draw the towers they built. Then the children counted how many of each object were in their towers.
