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Friday, September 13, 2013

Week 4- Energy Fun, Math Board, Daily Data, & Eating Bugs

This week I taught my class 2 more Wordtoons. They learned how to draw a fish from the word fish. They also drew a UFO from the word UFO. Take a look at some of their work.

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This week I also taught the kids several new math games and let them play with them. Each person got to choose one of the games I taught to test.

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Double Shutter

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Cirplexed


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Qwirkle- I only found two mistakes and that's pretty good for the first time with this game. I think this one is a little more challenging.

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Q-bitz

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Can you tell I like games from Mindware? The kids loved them as well. So I picked a few students to use a new app on my iPad and create a Gami to explain which games they liked the best. Check out a few of our new Gamis! Like the app and want to use it with your students? It is called Tellagami.




This week during Morning Meeting I shared this book and we talked about some of the insects people eat.

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Then I pulled out the crick-ettes and most of my students ate one.

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Some of them thought there were pretty good.

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Others were completely grossed out!

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I've had a few people asking about my Math Synergy board so I thought I'd post a few pictures of what we've done since school started. You can see the number of the day, which was 14 in this picture.

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The kids take the number and draw as many arrays that they can with 14 tiles. This helps them to determine if the number is prime or composite.

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I also added this chart for today's number. We write the number as a fraction, equivalent fractions, decimal, percent, and ratios. We have a part to whole and part to part ratio.

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We also complete our Daily Data notebook on Thursday. Throughout the week the kids get to vote to answer a question. This week the question was "What is your favorite kind of M&M?" Peanut or plain

The students write the following things in their composition notebook for daily data:
question of the week
draw the venn diagram with totals
draw a bar graph
I1 & I2- Write 2 inferences about the data from the graph.
Who cares? Write 2 people who would care about this data and explain why.

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Later I'll add a few more things but that's all we do right now.

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We wrapped up the week with an experiment to explore potential and kinetic energy. Students used a tape measure to measure the bounce height of a bouncy ball when dropped from different heights.
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Then they completed the chart with the heights from their groups, average bounce heights for each, and a graph of the data.

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Students mentioned they thought this was math. We talked about the fact that you use math in science a lot.

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STUDENTS: Create a question for our daily data board. What would you like me to ask and what would the two choices be?

8 comments:

  1. Chocolate or Candy (skittles, nerds, etc.)


    Haley

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  2. What's your favorite vehicle? Boats or trains

    From William MacDonald

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  3. Do you like Coke or Pepsi ?

    Avery

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  4. What's your favorite pizza ? Cheese or pepperoni

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  5. What team? Alabama or Auburn

    Jack Dennis

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  6. Hi, Mrs. White's 5th graders. We are the Highland Prince Academy 5th grade class. Our school is in Mexico. This yer we are learning to blog for the very first time. We know that you have been blogging for a while, and would like your help.
    We looked at your pictures and read your comments. We agree that the Fred Story activity was awesome, so we decided to do it too. It was fun, but hard. You can see our pictures in our blog: http://kidblog.org/MissRitasHistoryClass/66fc3726-0dd2-4f7f-bc5d-19bb463176eb/save-fred-idea-from-mrs-whites-5th-grade-class/.
    Today we made a Venn Diagram to descibe both our classes. We discovered that we have many things in common,but we need to know more about you so we can finish our work.
    Please tell us where your school is and if you use IPADS in the classroom, and anything else you would like to share with us.
    Thank you for reading our comment. Please check out our blog.

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  7. What is your favorite song?
    party in U.S.A or blur lines




    Dyani

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  8. i like motorcycles i got to ride one once its relly fun!!!! Have any of you rode one before? I wonder:) Skyler Skyler Skyler

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Thank you for your comments. Students, make sure to answer the question of the week to earn your ticket for the good job jar. If you have trouble posting your comment just e-mail it to me and I'll post it for you.