{"id":521,"date":"2011-08-16T16:07:59","date_gmt":"2011-08-16T20:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/?p=521"},"modified":"2011-08-16T16:08:06","modified_gmt":"2011-08-16T20:08:06","slug":"how-many-squares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/2011\/08\/16\/how-many-squares\/","title":{"rendered":"How many squares?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_518\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/files\/2011\/08\/8.16.11-002.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-518\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-518\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/files\/2011\/08\/8.16.11-002-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/files\/2011\/08\/8.16.11-002-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/files\/2011\/08\/8.16.11-002-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/files\/2011\/08\/8.16.11-002.jpg 1066w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-518\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ruth and the one hundred squares<\/p><\/div>\n<p>During arrival each morning, the children are given several options for what to do once they come in. These options change each week and are chosen to help facilitate conversation and engagement between students. This week, the choices are\u00a0building with the unifix cubes, creating designs on the geo boards, or looking at the books in our library. The kids have quickly\u00a0chosen the geo boards as a favorite activity and love\u00a0creating\u00a0designs on them. This morning, Ruth showed me what looked like, &#8220;Like a million squares!&#8221; I asked her, &#8220;Are there really a million?&#8221; She wasn&#8217;t sure. I asked her how we could find out how many.\u00a0She started counting\u00a0to see how many squares went across the top. &#8220;This is going to take a long time!&#8221; She said. I suggested if we know there are ten in each row, we could count by tens to figure out our grand total. Ruth counted, &#8220;Ten, twenty, thirty, fourty, fifty, sixty, seventy, eighty, ninety, one hundred! There&#8217;s one hundred!&#8221; All of our friends could hardly believe there were actually one hundred squares!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_520\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/files\/2011\/08\/8.16.11-007.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-520\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-520\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/files\/2011\/08\/8.16.11-007-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/files\/2011\/08\/8.16.11-007-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/files\/2011\/08\/8.16.11-007-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/files\/2011\/08\/8.16.11-007.jpg 1066w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-520\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aidan and Christian looking good during explore time<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During arrival each morning, the children are given several options for what to do once they come in. 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