Today, instead of Writers' Workshop, we played some Funbrain games - one game was One False Move and the other was Operation Order. They were really fun... and good for your brain! - Tyler and Joey
At indoor recess, me and Logan and Gal and Cam W. played Twister, and Cam W. kept spinning the same colour and the same foot. It was a three-way tie, but people weren't twisted up - they were in their own section. It was really easy. - Cam H.
We were missing a lot of students today, which meant I needed to switch up my schedule. We were going to continue with our introduction to multiplication (which we started on yesterday), and then have another Writers' Workshop session on our Chris Van Allsburg author study. However, I didn't want a big chunk of the class to miss out on the multiplication work or the group activity I had planned for Writer's Workshop, so I decided to 'switch it up'. We've been working with negative numbers for the last little while, so we spent a lot of time working on that again today, and it seems like the class is really starting to grasp it. This is a difficult concept for a lot of Grade 3 students to comprehend, initially: the idea that you can have less than zero (a concept most adults are more than familiar with, as a result of mortgages or car loans!). I found a really fun activity on Funbrain.com (a site with a lot of good Math games) called Operation Order algebra game - the students are really enjoying it, and it's helping them to learn about negative numbers. It was a nice way to learn and have fun on a cold, cold day!
At indoor recess, me and Logan and Gal and Cam W. played Twister, and Cam W. kept spinning the same colour and the same foot. It was a three-way tie, but people weren't twisted up - they were in their own section. It was really easy. - Cam H.
We were missing a lot of students today, which meant I needed to switch up my schedule. We were going to continue with our introduction to multiplication (which we started on yesterday), and then have another Writers' Workshop session on our Chris Van Allsburg author study. However, I didn't want a big chunk of the class to miss out on the multiplication work or the group activity I had planned for Writer's Workshop, so I decided to 'switch it up'. We've been working with negative numbers for the last little while, so we spent a lot of time working on that again today, and it seems like the class is really starting to grasp it. This is a difficult concept for a lot of Grade 3 students to comprehend, initially: the idea that you can have less than zero (a concept most adults are more than familiar with, as a result of mortgages or car loans!). I found a really fun activity on Funbrain.com (a site with a lot of good Math games) called Operation Order algebra game - the students are really enjoying it, and it's helping them to learn about negative numbers. It was a nice way to learn and have fun on a cold, cold day!
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