Hands-on Minds-on Learning

Being "hard at work" in math class looks different every day! Yes, some days mean math fact speed drills, but there's much more variety to our program.  Below students worked in groups to match numerals to the written forms of numbers and an array of pictures.

Students can use our number line as a math tool to skip count. 

We've begun using interactive Math Journals to keep key definitions and information in a place we can refer to throughout the year.  

 

Early on in this unit students began working on filling in a 100 chart with numbers they found in newspaper flyers.  The 100 chart is another tool that helps students recognize the patterns they see in numbers.

 A dice rolling game where we tried to get up to 100 and used pennies, nickels and dimes to help us keep track of how many points we've collected.  Many students are not very familiar with coins these days since we use so much "plastic", so clean out your coin jars and let them practice counting by 1's, 5's, 10's, and 25's. 

In our Creation Studies unit we wondered why God doesn't have to pick up his own garbage (dead plant materials like leaves and twigs and berries etc)?  So, we watched a video on God's Recycling Plan and learned about decomposers and then "enjoyed" a decomposition dessert .... worms and dirt anyone??

Finally we drew some of the decomposers themselves, like earthworms, millipedes, earwigs and fungi.