On Monday we said thank you to our student teacher in art! Ms. Raemer has been working with Mrs. Foley since the beginning of the year! Our class had the special opportunity to make a card for her and have the whole school sign it!
This week we also tried our first Webquest on Rocks and Minerals! We worked with a partner to use the internet on a guided tour of websites about rocks and minerals.
This month in Number Corner one of the activities is the unit fraction race! For each day of the month we use a spinner to figure out how many pieces we will add and of which size of fraction. We learned that a unit fraction means there is a 1 in the numerator.
Some interesting observations from today when I asked which fraction was winning:
Third grader: "Well it depends if you mean which one has the most pieces or longest distance!"
"1/2 is winning if you just look at distance."
"1/8 has the most pieces!"
Love this flexible thinking!!!
We also have been writing equations using our new knowledge about fractions. We talked about the difference between a mixed number (2 and 1/2) versus an improper fraction (5/2).
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