Both classes started the week in their design teams. They first thought of names for their teams. For a sampling: No Plan Inc, The King Bananas, and the Deep Thinking Divers. From there, each team began designing a google site (on the new google sites) to build team pages. This will be their landing page for materials, photos and weekly updates. To do weekly updates I'm hopefully using Kidblog. Kidblog is a great tool for class blogging. It's simple, easy to use interface allows for quick beautiful blogging. I'm going to encourage students to use a variety of media when blogging about math this year- I want some Vlogs, some podcast format (mp3 audio), and some traditional blog text and photo. Stay tuned for when that goes live, as I'm hoping for community feedback to the students.
Then we started grade level specific learning. 5th graders pre-assessed then started our volume and surface area unit. Here are some photos of them building a box that holds 12 cubes as many different ways possible:
In 6th grade students were pre-assessed on our fraction unit and we began looking at describing fractions in as many different forms as possible. From there we'll begin operational work with fractions with our goal to be able to fluently multiply and divide fractions. Here is a photo of our entry level task for that.
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