Yesterday, Miss Andrea had the students sorting out a milk crate full of random things found in our classroom. The items consisted of toys, activities, books, games and sight word cards. The purpose was to sort them out into what the students thought of as play and not play. The broke up into two groups and had to discuss with their partner where they thought the item should go. If there was a disagreement or if they thought it could go both ways, they put it in the middle of their hula hoop makeshift Venn diagram. The results of their sorting was quite interesting! All the défi math games were put on the play side ;) Once they sorted all the items, we got together to explain some of our reasoning and to here the perspective of all the students. They then added to their brainstorm of what play is. Some of the words students used to describe what play was were: imaginative, not restricted, fun, building, games, things I like.
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Everyone was busy playing away on Thursday afternoon before the long weekend!
Happy long weekend everyone! Picking a card and reproducing the image is one of the activities we are working on in math. Students are tasked with choosing a card and then using their 'little muscles' (as they are now calling them!) to stretch out the elastics and complete the image. When they finish one card, they get to make a silly image of their own. Later, we will use the blank geoboard cards to draw our own images and add it to the collection! As we work, we talk about the shapes and how all the images are formed using a variety of shapes. Shapes are all around us!
Our unit on family and documentation has basically finished up and our last and final unit for this school year is all about play, importance of it and how we learn through it. To start, we had a discussion about skills, the IB organizes skills according to 5 categories as pictured below. Last week, we went through each of this categories and came up with examples of how we build these skills. I was very impressed with all the examples the students came up with and how well the understood the concept. Later that day as we were colouring, one student shared that colouring helped make their little muscle get strong ;) More to come!
Here, students were using Unifix cubes to represent various addition facts. They chose two colours, stacked each colour together separately and added them together to find the total. Once their addition fact was verified using a calculator, they wrote it down on a sticky note and posted it to our math fact spot in the class. Each correct math fact earned a sticker on the sticky note!
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