Classroom News
Looking Back and Ahead
New in Math
We have just started our new math unit, Fractions. Students are embarking on a very new approach and it has ignited a lot of inquiry and perseverance in our kids. Students have been working in partnerships to prove and defend their thinking in a Math Congress setting. Please ask you child about this new approach. Today one of the students said to me Oh, Ms. Day, my brain is hurting! but in a good way! It must be growing!"
The Question
There are 5 students, how do they share their subs equally amongst 5 of them?
Partners at Work
Thinking and explaining, preparing to Defend and Convince
Tools
Deciding what tools help us with our thinking?
Carly and Gavin
Defend their thinking to the teacher
Some think time
Working it out on our own.
Khun Aon Supports us in our Math Work
This is what we are thinking...
Cameras, Lights, Action!
Students have developed, with your help at home, their business plans for our upcoming Marketplace. Thank you to our parent guest speakers, Marcus's dad, and Sanjana's dad, for helping us with our understanding of fair trade, economics, labor and supply and demand. Now students have turned their focus to marketing their businesses. We have been storyboarding advertisements for our commercials. This week students began filming their commercials on iMovie. It has been a lot of fun!
Storyboarding
Deciding on what shots to use, to be most persuasive.
Ms. Fleming Helps Us Troubleshoot
iMovie lesson with Ms. Fleming's support
Setting up our "Medium Shot"
Gavin gets ready for some puck action!
Fair Trade: Banana Simulation Activity
Students have been learning about the importance of buying fair trade goods, what affect their purchasing has on the world around them. We played the Banana Split Game. The aim of this game was to introduce the banana chain. What happens to a banana before it reaches the consumer . And to discuss the reality of "who gets what" from the sale of the bananas. Students were shocked to learn that the banana worker is the ultimate loser in this chain.
Working it Out
Before students knew the reality they had to role play and be the different parts of the chain. They had to divide the 13 cents amongst the different parts (banana worker, Plantation Owner, Shipper, Importer, Supermarket)
Doing the Math
What should I get?
Debating
Students were passionate about who should get what.