Math Jenga and Math Workshop

The fourth graders are excited about something new called "Math Workshop". During Math Workshop I meet with students in small groups to work on skills taught in class. It gives the students another opportunity to practice those skills and it provides me with a closer look at how they are doing on those skills. The students that have grasped a skill can also move on to a higher skill. Right now we have been concentrating on fractions...simplifying them, finding equivalent fractions and will soon move on to adding and subtracting fractions with like and unlike denominators.

On Wednesday we played "Math Jenga" during math class. It is a fun way to review some math concepts. The fourth graders loved it!

Here is our Question of the Week for this week:

Have a wonderful weekend! :)

Question of the Week

This week I introduced my homeroom to our "Question of the Week". I used a website called padlet.com to create the board. Each week there will be a new question for the fourth graders to answer. We will use the information for different types of graphing. This is also a great way for the students to practice their writing, editing and typing skills. They are asked to type their answers in a complete sentence and justify their answers. Once their response is "approved" by me, it appears on our Question of the Week board for everyone else to read. You can see our Question of the Week board by clicking HERE, or by clicking the link on the right side of my blog menu under "Quick Links". 

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Our first Question of the Week board on padlet.com

Question of the Week

Using the laptops in our classroom to type answers to the Question of the Week.