Kinder: Originality!

Kinder has been learning about thinking:  Fluency, Flexibility, Logic, Compare/Contrast and now Originality.  We read the book The Bag I'm Taking to Grandma's and discussed how the book related to us.  A few of us had spent the night at Grandma's and told about the things they had to take with them.  In the book, our main character has so many things he wants to take that the bag starts to break!  We talked about "essentials" and how our character was missing those, then we created our own special bags to take to grandma's using an app called Pic Collage.  We laughed when our original thinking had us taking a Pizza Hut store or a MLB player to grandma's!  See our bags below:

Grade 3: Math, Symmetry and the Taj Mahal

This was our last week to spend on the country of India.  Today we discussed how Rangoli designs and the Taj Mahal showed symmetry.  We read a book called Seeing Symmetry by Loreen Leedy and learned about line and rotational symmetry.  Folding die cut letters of the alphabet such as Z, C, and A, we determined if they had one or two lines of symmetry.  Words like MOM and HID also have lines of symmetry but one is vertical and the other horizontal.  It was very interesting to look at objects and decide if they were symmetrical in some way.  We reviewed the design of the Taj Mahal then practiced making our own building designs with symmetry on a magnet board and various shapes.  Some of us took on the challenge of creating a building with 2 lines of symmetry!  Great job, third grade!

Summer is coming and we have to keep our brain thinking!  Below are two links that might be interesting to our third graders during our time out of school.  DIY.com offers many projects and interesting activities in various subject areas. Click on the Skills button at the top and choose challenges to complete for badges of progress!   More to come later!




Do it yourself challenges:

8 Youtube science channels for kids

 Where's Jake?

Carter

Grade 1 & 2: Taj Mahal and Symmetry

Last week we discussed how the Taj Mahal showed symmetry.  We read a book called Seeing Symmetry by Loreen Leedy and learned about line and rotational symmetry.  Folding die cut letters of the alphabet such as Z, C, and A, we determined if they had one or two lines of symmetry.  Words like MOM and HID also have lines of symmetry but one is vertical and the other horizontal.  It was very interesting to look at objects and decide if they were symmetrical in some way.  We reviewed the design of the Taj Mahal then practiced making our own building designs with symmetry on a magnet board and various shapes.  Some of us took on the challenge of creating a building with 2 lines of symmetry!  What amazing architects in 1st and 2nd GT!!  See below: