Thank you to all those parents who sent in boxes. To conclude our Geometry unit, we placed the students into partners. They had to make a plan and then choose boxes to create a 3D structure. It was great listening to the dialogue between the students as they brainstormed and gathered their materials.
We placed some building blocks and some pictures of famous towers at the math centre to provoke children to build some 3D structures.
We read the story How Full is Your Bucket? to the class. This is one of our favourite books to read as it discusses nice things to say to someone to fill their invisible bucket, which in return will fill their own bucket. We then placed a piece of chart paper and some nice sayings at the language centre, encouraging students to fill each other's bucket.
We read the book 'If You Give a Pig a Pancake' to the children. We then had fun making our very own pancakes. We started by mixing the ingredients together to make the pancake mix. Each child then took their turn scooping some mix onto the griddle. We then waited for the pancakes to bubble on the top. Once they started to bubble, they carefully flipped their pancake. Finally, they ate their pancake! Yum...yum...yum!
Sophia decided to visit the math centre, so I sat with her to discuss what she was doing. She grabbed the cylinder and said "Look, it rolls!" and placed it in the 'Roll' circle of the Venn Diagram. TP: What will happen if you stand it up. Do you think it will roll? Sophia grabbed the cylinder and tested it on the ramp. "No, it slides. It needs to go in the 'Both' circle". She then tested the sphere and laughing said "Wow, that one really rolls!". She continued testing all the solids and got excited to see all the ones that slid. At one point she thought the prisms rolled but realized that it wasn't true because she really had to push them. Alexys joined Sophia and they had lots of fun testing them together.
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