Some of our students became interested in measuring their friends. They decided to use our classroom links to measure how big our heads their heads were and how tall they are. This sparked an idea to introduce graphing. The students will learn how to record their findings.
We will be introducing a question each day that the students have to answer on our graph.
After everyone has had a chance to answer the question we calculate all of our data and review our findings.
The students are still interested in learning about our Canadian coins. We've decided to incorporate our money into a bar graph. Each student was given a specific coin to graph. We would take turns grabbing a handful of money out of a money bag and then sort each coin. They would have to count how many coins they had and then take that amount of unifix cubes and place them on our graph. Once the bag was empty we would calculate each coin to see which coin we had the most of and which we had the least of.
In class we watched a story called Square Cat by Elizabeth Schoonmaker on YouTube. The students were then given a question, "Would you rather be a square cat or a circle cat?"
Once the students had decided on which shape they would rather be we asked them to go create their own cat using the shape they chose. We decided to use the website fotobabble to gather some recordings of our students explaining why they chose their shape. Follow the links to listen.
http://www.fotobabble.com/m/QjhjTDRuVUZPOWc9
Sidney
http://www.fotobabble.com/m/MlpFOHozcGhSWjg9
Justin
http://www.fotobabble.com/m/UjJIMWhQaWFsUm89
Olivia J
http://www.fotobabble.com/m/aEFIWmdMb3ZTMjg9
Allen
http://www.fotobabble.com/m/Z3RleEgvenJBRlU9
Lauryn
http://www.fotobabble.com/m/bU0rMVdnT1VMbmc9
Lauren
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