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Good afternoon,
Today we started off with some group work challenges to help inspire us. We have been having a little bit of trouble working in groups over the last few weeks, so we decided that this was something that we needed to practice. Students worked in their table groups. Each group was given some snap cubes. Ms. Ingram and I had built a beautiful snap cube statue. Students were challenged to build the same statue that we had built. There was a catch though. The statue was hidden under a blue bin. Groups could only send one student up at a time to look at the statue, and each student could only look for 5 seconds. The first time students completed the challenge, there were some things that we struggled with. Some groups were getting frustrated and not being respectful to their entire group, some students were not staying on task or participating, some groups were struggling to include everyone in the activity. However, a lot went right! Groups worked together, were encouraging, they kept going even though the task was difficult. We discussed what went right and decided that we would try again. This time groups would come up with a plan! They would ask themselves: What do we need to do? and How are we going to do it? Then, focusing on some of the successes from the previous round, students tried the activity again, with great success. Afterwards we went over some expectations for group work in our classroom. Students are actually going to sign a contract on Monday promising to do their best to follow the expectations. You can check out the contract below:
Next we worked together on some Math. Students were challenged to try and see if they could recognize any patterns in tic tac toe that would help them to come up with a better strategy to win the game. At first we played regular tic tac toe, but then we played a four square version. I won’t give away our winning strategy, because I know a few students wanted to try this out again at home.
We also practiced our Cardinal Directions today with these cool maps from Canadian Geographic. Stay tuned for more fun Mapping activities!
http://www.canadiangeographic.ca/mapping/offthemap.asp
Agenda:
Read 20 minutes
Language Arts – Writer’s Notebooks: Memory Hands and Hate Faces
Picture Day – October 1st and 2nd
Web Release Form – due ASAP
Book Orders – September 30th
No School Tomorrow – I’ll see you all on Monday 🙂
