Having Fun and Working Hard!

In the last two weeks, we did a quick and brief study on my favorite president - Abraham Lincoln.

Can you recognize him?

We also did a few pieces of "American Pride" artwork. I loved how different they all were. The directions were to choose one thing to draw and then create the American Flag on it. These are a few of the things they came up with.

They are still hanging in the hall but I will be sending them home soon!

We have started to focus heavily on borrowing and we have used our base 10 blocks to help us as well as the ActivExpressions that we are borrowing from the ESD. I give the students a problem to solve on the Promethean Board:

They use their base-10 blocks to solve the problem:

And then they send in the answer using their ActivExpressions! It is a lot of fun and the students are loving every minute of it!

On Friday we didn't have a quick check so we played a game together instead. We split up into teams and then played a game similar to Jeopardy that helped us practice our math. Here is the game board:

The teams had to work together and solve the problem. They took turns being the one who got to send in the answer with the ActivExpression. They are already begging me to play again!

Here is an example of one of the problems:

If your student's aren't wanting to practice math at home try to set up a game similar to this one and play together as a family. I bet your student would sit right up and love to play and it would be a great family time activity. You never know - they could even teach you a thing or two!