Technically it's still Christmas since my tree is still up, but since I finally get to return to work tomorrow, I thought it was time to update the blog. I wanted to share what my kids were up to before we left for break so we can get ready to rock 'n roll into the new year.
We spent the majority of our time working on multiplication concepts and practicing different strategies for recognizing solving multiplication problems. Then the students practiced by creating their own story problems and representations.
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| Multiplication Strategies Anchor Chart |
We also learned about multiplication and division fact families by creating some lovely mistletoe (saw this on Pinterest of course!) I randomly assigned multiplication facts, and the students created the fact family on the leaves. The berries in the middle show the numbers in the family.
We also spent one day participating in the Hour if Code. This program is used to expose students to computer coding in a fun way. The students spent time in the computer lab solving coding puzzles based on Angry Birds or Frozen. It was amazing seeing the students completely engaged and helping each other. Many of the kids continued to work on the iPads during workstations and found an activity where they could program their own version of Flappy Bird. Here's some pics from that day:
One of the things I really love to do with my students around the holidays is origami. We made these fun origami picture frames and used them to decorate our class tree. I used the pattern and directions from the book Origami Math by Karen Baicker.
Although I'm not looking forward to my alarm going off early tomorrow morning, I am excited to get back! We'll be making some goals for the year, working more on fact fluency and problem solving, and begin division concepts. It will be an adventure!
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| Even Santa showed up in my class! :) |
Have a FANTASTIC year!
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