Overview: This past week has been one of goal setting. As the students work towards completion of their art creations, fractured fairy tales and postings on their blogs, they are continuously asked to set goals of what they hope to accomplish. This permits them to orientate to the task at hand, thinking about what they will need to get started and choices they need to make in hopes of reaching their goal. They have had the chance to feel failure and success. Reflecting and learning from the failures to have successful re-tries. They are so excited to share their final pieces with their parents in the upcoming assembly and student-led conferences.
Maths: The children are continuing on with their practice of multiplying by 10's, 100's, & 1,000's in looking at measurement conversions. They also had an usual problem solving challenge this week. They were asked to study a variety of tessellations and create story problems that matched the tessellation of their choosing. Story problems spanned across many math categories, such as: number, shape and pattern. In preparation for upcoming work on equivalent fractions, the children had a chance to brainstorm & record their understanding of fraction vocabulary. They were asked to create "graffiti boards" with words, symbols and examples of fractions.