Happy Thursday, everyone!
Here's a look at what we were up to this morning.
We started our morning together in randomized groups at the white boards working through a series of "One of These Things is Not Like the Others" cards. When working at the whiteboard, we work in teams of 3 and only have 1 marker to share per group. This puts the focus on discussing and collaborating on an answer WITH our group rather than having three individuals in a group each working alongside one another without any collaboration at all.
We worked with our groups to identify which number or picture was not like the other three and had to back up our reasons with "mathematical proof." The 'trick' to these questions is that there just isn't one correct answer; there can be many different answers found in one set of pictures.
Please ask me about what types of numbers and pictures my group and I worked on and what we came up with!
We are continuing our daily reading with a partner. Next week we will start combining our first two "LAs" together, with half of the class reading independently while the other half reads with a partner.
We ended our morning in Science, which included watching a short episode of Curious George!
We have started discussing different classification systems that we see in our daily lives, and Curious George helping out at his local library was the perfect example of how a group of objects (in this case, books) can be organized in many different ways. Not all organization systems are created equal, and each system can have advantages and disadvantages.
We applied what we learned in the video to how we sorted ourselves in class yesterday. How many different ways can we group our classmates? What specific questions can we ask to classify objects into groups that become more and more specific?
We'll continue applying this concept in class next week.
Have a great afternoon! :)
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Agenda items for today:
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