Our current Math unit, Equal Groups - Multiplication & Division, has us exploring the following topics:
Things that come in groups
Skip counting and 100 charts
Arrays
Understanding Division
One of the benchmarks within this unit is for students to demonstrate fluency with multiplication combinations with products up to 50 (by the end of Grade 3). To help with this, [...]
Well, the time has come for students to share their learning with you … their most important audience! We have been working very hard to prepare for this Thursday & Friday, and we know you will enjoy it. Please remember that this is their chance to shine. They will walk you through many aspects of [...]
What a great way to celebrate our school’s culture! Last week was International Week, and we wrapped things up on Thursday with an assembly which recognized how global our school is. It was really amazing seeing how proud everyone is of their home culture. From there, the parents took over with some amazing activities, lots [...]
In the Math the last couple of weeks, we have been investigating measurement. Our emphases are:
- measuring with standard units
- understanding and finding perimeter and area
- describing and classifying shapes (2 dimensional)
One of our activities had us construct tetrominoes.
In the end, students were able to discover 5 different shapes with an area of 4 square [...]
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Due in class … Wednesday, February 10th!
We are now 19 students … New additions are:
Ryo Eshita, from Japan
Sung Jun Yun, from Korea.
Stay tuned for more next week on student bloggers, a new Science Unit (Structures of Life) and Reading Unit (Character).
We did it!
Well, on the last day we managed to pull it together and reach our goal of 1000 plastic bags. It felt great doing the final count, and then handing them over to the local branch of Thai Craft representative. We calculated that the bags we gathered could be made into about 22 “recycled” [...]
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Handbags Made from Plastic Bigs!
Today we had a chance to meet the people from Thai Craft, a local group that use recycled materials to make various hand-made products. The kids were really excited, and seeing what all of their plastic bags could be made into was really amazing. 40-50 regular plastic bags can make 1 [...]
Sorting and Organizing Plastic Bags!
If you don’t know already, Room 210 has decided to collect 1000 plastic bags. This is to give us a better idea of what the number 1000 really represents. We will begin by grouping them into 10s, and once we have 10 bags, a group of 100. Today, we have already [...]
Continue reading about A New Reading Unit … and homework trial period.
Well, we are trying to make the process of getting organized to go home easier. Writing in our homework books takes time, and getting organized to go home even longer. So, we are going to change things up a little bit. From now on, students will write only the homework tasks which change on a [...]
