{"id":921,"date":"2011-09-08T00:07:51","date_gmt":"2011-09-08T04:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/?p=921"},"modified":"2011-09-08T00:08:29","modified_gmt":"2011-09-08T04:08:29","slug":"921","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/2011\/09\/08\/921\/","title":{"rendered":"Praying Mantis Math"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mceTemp mceIEcenter\">\n<div style=\"text-align: left\">\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0We have been incorporating our praying mantis into our reading, writing, and math. Today, we started our day by reading the book, &#8220;Manuelo the Playing Mantis,&#8221; a story about a praying mantis that wants to make music. Some of our friends have been writing about bugs in Writer&#8217;s Workshop, and yesterday, we solved a math problem about our new pet, Cinderella Lightning McQueen. I talked about how many crickets I put in Cinderella&#8217;s terrarium and how many were left. Then I asked students to figure out how many crickets Cinderella had eaten. After that, I gave students this story problem&#8230;&#8221;There were 10 crickets in the bag. Miss Estridge took out 3 crickets to give to Cinderella Lightning McQueen. How many crickets are in the bag now?&#8221; Student were put into pairs and asked to solve the problem using unifix cubes. They did a wonderful job solving this math problem. As we continue to learn more about praying mantids and other insects, I will continue to try to incorporate that information into our learning.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_883\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/files\/2011\/09\/IMG_6117.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-883\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-883\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/files\/2011\/09\/IMG_6117-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/files\/2011\/09\/IMG_6117-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/files\/2011\/09\/IMG_6117.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-883\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aaliyah and DayTwon show me the unifix cubes they used to solve our math problem.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<dl>\n<dd><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0We have been incorporating our praying mantis into our reading, writing, and math. Today, we started our day by reading the book, &#8220;Manuelo the Playing Mantis,&#8221; a story about a praying mantis that wants to make music. Some of our friends have been writing about bugs in Writer&#8217;s Workshop, and yesterday, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":616,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[109549],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-estridge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/616"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=921"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":924,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921\/revisions\/924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}