What Shape am I?, Suspend, Multiplication Mosaics, Domes, Input-Output, Percentiles, Romeo & Juliet

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Kinders

Using salt, the kinder students drew shapes with their fingers according to the hints they were given. EX: It has 4 sides, 4 corners and it is like a rectangle that is leaning over. 

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1st graders

Kaylie, Victoria, Briana, and Frances playing the game Suspend.

Design a machine to gather acorns and take them to Isabela's hollow near the top of a tree.

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2nd graders

 Students stood in a circle, placed their fingertips on the ball and lifted it, leaning in towards the center of the ball and sliding their feet back, hoping to form a dome shape. 

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    3rd Graders

Students learned the terms ALGORITHMS and FUNCTIONS today. http://www.mathplayground.com/functionmachine.html

We had fun playing this fun game today. http://www.itsawordfunworld.com/

Hands signals to help us remember product,sum, difference, and quotient. 
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4TH GRADERS
Today was all about Shakespear's Romeo and Juliet.We watched a modern time Romeo and Juliet summary,then we read the kids version of Romeo and Juliet.Finally we got into 3 groups and started to make the 3 most important scenes of the play,the town,the "castle"(sorry I forgot what it was called),and the place where they both die.We didn't finish but we are going to finish when we get back from spring break.Cindy

We spent part of the morning converting our survey numbers into percentiles so that we could add them to our Pictographs.

Designing our background scenes for the play.