4th Grade Math Homework: See Wednesday's assignment - due on Tuesday, 10/11
The students had two opportunities to work with images in creative ways today. During writing workshop, along rotating to typing practice for part of the time, the students selected a picture as a source of inspiration. The writing goal was to use the image, or element from the image to inspire a written story. The story could have a direct or indirect connection to the image.
In the last hour of the day we revisited photographs for an drawing project. Students selected a new image, cut it in half and used color pencil to re-render the missing half. This is an activity that helps students see the shape, line, tone and color relationships within an image. For example, the shadows on a white area may appear tinted with color, and often are a reflection of surrounding colors. Background, or negative space, becomes even more evident with this attention to detail. This form of close observation is related to our work in science where we ask the students to observe closely and construct meaning or new understandings from direct evidence.
Photo - drawing activity.
Strawberry began the first of several meetings scheduled with Kate Klaire to work on Social Rules. Along with creating the student recess council to discuss playground agreements, Kate's work in the classroom is intended to continue the thread of personal and group responsibility.
4th Grade Math: Today, for the first half of math class the 4th grade students reviewed recent classwork finding the factors of 200, and extended their work to finding the factors of 300. The second half of class focused on cooperative small group problem solving. In groups of four each student was in charge of a clue to help solve a number puzzle. The clues use mathematical vocabulary, such as multiple, sum and difference, and require the students to work cooperatively to solve the puzzle.
Working on math puzzle.
