Happy Monday!
In today's Math group, we continued working on decreasing patterns. Many students noticed both decreasing and repeating patterns in their work. They also worked on a word problem. This was a guided activity, and tomorrow, students will work on a word problem independently.
Today's math problem was:
Grandma's Cookies.
Grandma baked 25 chocolate chip cookies. She lays them on a tray to cool. Her dog smells the cookies and eats 5 of them. He goes back a second time and eats 5 more. If he continues with this pattern, how many times will he be able to return and eat cookies until there are none left?
The poor dog. He shouldn't eat chocolate!
In today's writing group (from Mr. Mackenzie's and Mrs. Hordyk's classes), students worked on similes. I was quick like a fox!
Students were first given some sentence starters, and they had to fill in the blank. We discussed using juicy words, and that the similes had to make sense in their comparison. The students then started working on a simile booklet, where they filled in as many adjectives as they could on one side of the organizer, then filled in as many living and non-living things on the other side of the organizer. Tomorrow, students will combine to create their own fabulous similes, and then metaphors, which we hope to see in their future writing.
My other writing group (from Mrs. Redd's and Mrs. Predika's classes) worked on a 5 W poem: who? what? where? when? why? They came up with some fantastic poems, and they are now working on illustrating them.
In today's Math group, we continued working on decreasing patterns. Many students noticed both decreasing and repeating patterns in their work. They also worked on a word problem. This was a guided activity, and tomorrow, students will work on a word problem independently.
Today's math problem was:
Grandma's Cookies.
Grandma baked 25 chocolate chip cookies. She lays them on a tray to cool. Her dog smells the cookies and eats 5 of them. He goes back a second time and eats 5 more. If he continues with this pattern, how many times will he be able to return and eat cookies until there are none left?
The poor dog. He shouldn't eat chocolate!
In today's writing group (from Mr. Mackenzie's and Mrs. Hordyk's classes), students worked on similes. I was quick like a fox!
Students were first given some sentence starters, and they had to fill in the blank. We discussed using juicy words, and that the similes had to make sense in their comparison. The students then started working on a simile booklet, where they filled in as many adjectives as they could on one side of the organizer, then filled in as many living and non-living things on the other side of the organizer. Tomorrow, students will combine to create their own fabulous similes, and then metaphors, which we hope to see in their future writing.
My other writing group (from Mrs. Redd's and Mrs. Predika's classes) worked on a 5 W poem: who? what? where? when? why? They came up with some fantastic poems, and they are now working on illustrating them.