Rolling along on our projects and I attend a PLP Fair

This week was a productive week both in and outside of the classroom.

6th grade students spent the early part of the week continuing to explore fractions. We did a series of exit tasks surrounding the different fraction operations. I've been compiling those to determine the individual supports I can offer for those needing some more work. The end of the week for them brought project work time. I'm continuing to be blown away by the level of work and team work that these kids show. Their scale models are really coming together! Wednesday I went to the front office and brought back to the classroom one of the real construction drawings being used during our building renovation. Kids really looked at that with a careful eye before heading back to their individual drawings.

This photo is when the kids called down Joe Carr, who oversees the dances. They wanted to know where they could place items, how many kids came, etc. He was a good sport!

In 5th grade, students are working really hard for learning the formula for area of rectangle. We finally got to where we understand that area of a rectangle is length times width! From there, we began to extend that to finding the surface area of a 3-dimensional shape. Students worked together exploring how to create a formula for that as well.

Every Friday is a reflection day, I created a 5 question reflection guide with sentence starters for kids to think about as the blogged. We are using kidblog to do our writing. Student blogs can be viewed at the following link: https://kidblog.org/class/mr-baileys-math/posts