Thursday, December 2, 2010

Thursday, December 2, 2010

In Math we worked in pairs and the large group to come up with things that come in 2s, 3s, 4s, 5s, 6s, 7s, 8s, 9s, and 10s. These are some of the things we came up with:

Comes in 2s
shoes
hands
ears
eyes
legs
arms
thumbs
twins
wheels on a bike

Comes in 3s
sides of a triangle
triplets
wheels of a tricycle

Comes in 4s
quadruplets
legs on a cat (and other animals)
sides on a square, rectangle, and diamond
wheels of a bike with training wheels

Comes in 5s
fingers on one hand
school days in a week
toes on one foot
sides of a pentagon
quintuplets

Comes in 6s
sides of a hexagon
legs on an insect

Comes in 7s
days of the week
Harry Potter series

Comes in 8s
legs on a spider
legs on an octopus
sides of an octagon

Comes in 9s
squares on a tic-tac-toe board

Comes in 10s
fingers on 2 hands
toes on 2 feet

We chose from this list to create multiplication problems. For example, one student drew 5 spiders, with 8 legs each, creating the multiplication problem of 5x8=40.

We wrote a story based on the Mexican Folktale that we have been reading, Pedro and the Padre. Our vocabulary words this week came from the story: mischievous, saturate, cringe, penitence, skeptic, and retrieve.

Today we had Spanish, PE, Library, and Music.

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