TGIF!

Each day we have been working to increase our stamina during our "Read to Self" time. I have just been amazed by this group's desire to read, read longer, and read more often. Love it!

Our focus today in math was on solidifying our grasp of adding large numbers. To create these numbers we passed around two decks of cards. As students dealt between 4-6 cards to create addends (the numbers added together to get the sum, or total), we were also able to practice reading these numbers fluently...something that can become quite challenging as the word "hundred" tends to pop in often!

Happy Friday!

Area & Perimeter

Created our names "minecraft" style. Then found the area and perimeter. Wrapped up the whole project by collecting the data on everyone's names and creating line plots to show the data. 

(correct the photo orientation before uploading, and of course it's still sideways...you'll just have to strain your neck to the left or turn your computer :) )

Our names!

Volume

Gonna keep this one quick since it's late. Yikes! This morning we learned how to measure volume in cubic centimeters. 

Info we already knew that we needed: The area of a base is length x width. Height means how tall something is.

Everyone worked in groups of 4 to construct 4 different rectangular prisms. Once they were assembled, we worked on estimating their volume, filling them with centimeter cubes, and then calculating the volume by multiplying the area of the base times the height. 

Most challenging part? Getting those cubes to fit perfectly in the prisms...

Calculating volume once we figured out the procedure = a piece of cake!