When the weather is too cold (single digit temperatures) or the air too bad, we have indoor recess. This is usually decided at the last minute because it is good to get students outside. Over the past two weeks there have been a lot of indoor recess days. Some how we still have fun!!
We are studying division and doing lots of word problems. Here are some podcast examples of the problems we have been doing and how to solve them using model drawing.
Tomato plants problem 1 Mr. Alia and his packages 4th Grade field trip Container of Juice To help review multiplication we launched rockets. The students worked in groups to build a rocket and then launched it as many times as they could. Each time they had to record how much air they put in the launcher and how far the rocket went. It was fun and did require a lot of multiplication! Check out the pictures below.
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September 2014
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