Paperclips Galore
Ogden Riley, publicity leader from Mrs Sumsion's 6th grade class writes, "We ended up getting 300+ paperclips at one of the tables. Look how strong the skin was. This was a fun activity. At the end of the assignment WE HAD AN OCEAN OF WATER ON EACH TABLE.
Skittles Math
In 5th grade we learned about place value by using skittles. Each skittle was worth 1 unit. We discovered that 10 was an easy number to package them up into and count up easily. The students are hard at work putting those packages of 10 together. They called a package of 10 - tenlets. When we put 10 of those together, we got onehundrefiers. :) We got so good that we kept going on to thousandators and beyond. . .
Gingerbread Man Story
The Gingerbread Man visited Kindergarten today. All the students were so excited to try and catch him! He was too fast and sneaky for us, but he left us some of his favorite cookies. I mentioned that it was so nice that the Gingerbread Man shared his favorite cookies with us. One of my students, Allie, raised her hand and commented on how the Gingerbread Man was being Proactive by sharing with us. I'm glad to hear that my students are already becoming GREAT LEADERS living the 7 Habits!
-Conttributed by Sandi Smartt
Neighborhoods and Towns in Mrs. Sugu's Class!
In Mrs. Sugu's class, students talked about what things make up a neighborhood. Then they got into groups and designed towns. Then they labeled the places in the towns, and played town with toy cars.