This week has super productive! We started on Tuesday by practicing SET. We are excited about taking on some other students in a game of SET, so we practiced playing for real! We earned points for correctly identifying sets, and lost points for pulling three cards that didn't make a set! Students earned a total of 24 points!!! They were AWESOME playing this week!
We are also making great progress with our Ozobot Fairy Tale Challenge. Students completed mapping out their story and Ozobot playground. I conferenced with each one and we drew up a rough draft of what their playgrounds would include. Student then began drawing out their Ozobot playground! This required careful measurement and clever illustrations!!
Finally, during our math we learned all about arrays and multiplication. Students learned how arrays can help us count a number of items arranged in sets and organized in rows and columns. We watched a fun video on Brainpop Jr, then explored how we can take a number and derive all of the factors of the number by creating arrays. I modeled using the number 12 and students discovered that we could make 1 row of 12 (so 1 and 12 are factors), 2 rows of 6 (so 2 and 6 are factors), 3 rows of 4 (so 3 and 4 are factors). Students also discovered that the factors can be flip flopped but still result in the same amount - the commutative property of multiplication!!!!! After I modeled, students were given graph paper and were charged with discovering all of the factors for a number they were assigned. We had students working on numbers like 32, 28, 24, 30, etc. After spring break, we will take our factors and create a beautiful city-scape where the windows in the buildings show and array of the number the student was assigned!
By the way here are the stained glass windows the students finished! They are looking good!!!
We are also making great progress with our Ozobot Fairy Tale Challenge. Students completed mapping out their story and Ozobot playground. I conferenced with each one and we drew up a rough draft of what their playgrounds would include. Student then began drawing out their Ozobot playground! This required careful measurement and clever illustrations!!
Finally, during our math we learned all about arrays and multiplication. Students learned how arrays can help us count a number of items arranged in sets and organized in rows and columns. We watched a fun video on Brainpop Jr, then explored how we can take a number and derive all of the factors of the number by creating arrays. I modeled using the number 12 and students discovered that we could make 1 row of 12 (so 1 and 12 are factors), 2 rows of 6 (so 2 and 6 are factors), 3 rows of 4 (so 3 and 4 are factors). Students also discovered that the factors can be flip flopped but still result in the same amount - the commutative property of multiplication!!!!! After I modeled, students were given graph paper and were charged with discovering all of the factors for a number they were assigned. We had students working on numbers like 32, 28, 24, 30, etc. After spring break, we will take our factors and create a beautiful city-scape where the windows in the buildings show and array of the number the student was assigned!
By the way here are the stained glass windows the students finished! They are looking good!!!