Each Friday in Math we have been playing different games to target math skills such as math facts and number sense.\u00a0 This week the students were able to choose between all of the games we have learned so far.\u00a0 Students played Number Burglar, Make 10 Go Fish, Ten Frame War, and Addition Tic Tac Toe.\u00a0 Each pair of students chose two games to play.\u00a0\u00a0 I heard many conversations between partners involving deep mathematical thinking.\u00a0 The students are really improving on the strategies behind the games!<\/p>\n
Our science provocations this week have centered around observing and using magnifying glasses.\u00a0 Many students expressed an interest in working on their observation skills by completing observational drawings.\u00a0 We decided that we wanted to do observational drawings of a tree.\u00a0 At the end of the day we spent some time observing the tree and drawing.\u00a0 The students made detailed observations such as “leaves are already starting to fall” and “there’s a nest in this tree.” We will continue developing our observation skills next week!<\/p>\n\n\t\t