Thursday, January 5, 2017

Castle Construction

Today we began with round 2 of our Jumpstart cycle, focusing on different types of analogy relationships.  Students substituted their pairs into bridge sentences to check the relationship for consistency.
In math we continued with area where students discovered that figures with the same area can have a very different shape. They were able to find as many different ways as possible to draw an irregular shape with an area of 7 square centimeters on grid paper.  We then worked on subdividing those figures into rectangles and squares and writing number sentences using L x W to show each part's area.



For our Mindset Moment, students watched a short video where they were introduced to Mojo and his discovery about what challenges can do for his brain.
We were excited to begin part 2 of our Medieval Times project today.  Students broke  ground on our book study of Knights and Castles by Mary Pope Osborne, completed a Medieval timeline, and started construction on their lapbook castles!



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