Today was a super fun day today at school! We did lots of hands on activities today in math and science! We began the morning with our morning smile in which students had to do a colour by number but the numbers in the pictures were subtraction money questions. The students did a wonderful job and the bowling pictures looked awesome - they went home in the agenda for parents to see :).
We then moved in to language arts where we read another chapter about Flat Stanley and learned about him as a kite. The students and I then developed our success criteria for creating a Flat person. The students were so excited and spent the next period designing themselves as a Flat person and then writing up their character profile.
After nutrition break we had science where we worked on simple machines. Today's focus was on the lever. We read a short story, reviewed the parts of the lever, and I then modelled how to create a lever and the students were given the task of creating two different levers that could move an eraser into a cup. It was an exciting experiment as students solved the problem of where to put the fulcrum in comparison to the load and sometimes our erasers ended up all over the classroom!
We then switched into math and read a story about Alexander who used to be rich last Sunday. The students used coin manipulatives to learn how Alexander lost all his money. The students really enjoyed solving the problem along with the story. The students then got to create their own story about themselves and how they used to be rich last Sunday - they were very cute!
Students were all given some math homework to complete and I am sure they will be so happy to show you how amazing they are with money! Tomorrow we are beginning letter writing and going grocery shopping in math! :)
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