Day nine: Students are given nine squares. They are not instructed to build anything (yet) with those nine squares. We begin by using individual student white boards and looking once again at numbers in the number 9. This time students have 9 squares in which they can manipulate into number patterns. Once the class has had a discussion on the number 9, what numbers are contained in the number 9 and what we know about nine (it comes after 8 and before 10) then we begin by making pictures. The students are paired up and are instructed to create pictures out of the number nine. I have had students build animals, houses (as pictured) and many other things. The partnerships continue to take turns building nine for the next few minutes. When instructed they are to glue their favorite thing constructed from the 9 squares, glue it in to their math journals and write about it!Day 9: number 9
Day nine: Students are given nine squares. They are not instructed to build anything (yet) with those nine squares. We begin by using individual student white boards and looking once again at numbers in the number 9. This time students have 9 squares in which they can manipulate into number patterns. Once the class has had a discussion on the number 9, what numbers are contained in the number 9 and what we know about nine (it comes after 8 and before 10) then we begin by making pictures. The students are paired up and are instructed to create pictures out of the number nine. I have had students build animals, houses (as pictured) and many other things. The partnerships continue to take turns building nine for the next few minutes. When instructed they are to glue their favorite thing constructed from the 9 squares, glue it in to their math journals and write about it!
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Sarah,
ReplyDeleteI think your blog is the most professional one that I have looked at, I can tell that you actually know what you are doing. Unlike me and some of the others who are newbies at blogging. I think your blog shows that it doesn't have to be extra work for you, but that with a simple picture upload you can share what is happening in your room. Most teachers know what they are or have done, they don't have to make any of that up but write about it. The pictures add so much to the overall look of the blog. Also showing student work can give teachers a great idea of what something should eventually look like when all is completed. Now if I could only remember to leave a camera at school most days maybe my blog would look as good as yours does.