We finished up our BizTown time shop prep today. We have written our ads for the kids' shops and businesses, and we should be good to go now. I know that I do have to have some of my students who are CEO's write their speeches to give to the citizens of BizTown.
The kids did an awesome job today with our lessons. A couple of them dealt with some pretty heady ideas. In our reading books (the Crab Books), we read about a documentarian from the Middle East who is shining a light on injustice, especially toward traditional women's roles in that area of the world. The class did really nicely at keeping up with the conversation and man, did they ever have some good insights into that whole area.
We then compared and contrasted this story with one from Scholastic News, which was all about the Women's Lib movement of the 60's and 70's in the United States. (This was a Scholastic News version, so no worries on the content...I read it first!) I was incredibly impressed with how well they responded.
In Math today, we dealt with transformations of shapes in Geometry. Interestingly, they put translations (slides), reflections (flips), and rotations (turns) all in the same lesson. They seemed to get the translations and reflections. The rotations caused some problems.
Here's a video that may help:
Hope everyone has a great evening!
The kids did an awesome job today with our lessons. A couple of them dealt with some pretty heady ideas. In our reading books (the Crab Books), we read about a documentarian from the Middle East who is shining a light on injustice, especially toward traditional women's roles in that area of the world. The class did really nicely at keeping up with the conversation and man, did they ever have some good insights into that whole area.
We then compared and contrasted this story with one from Scholastic News, which was all about the Women's Lib movement of the 60's and 70's in the United States. (This was a Scholastic News version, so no worries on the content...I read it first!) I was incredibly impressed with how well they responded.
In Math today, we dealt with transformations of shapes in Geometry. Interestingly, they put translations (slides), reflections (flips), and rotations (turns) all in the same lesson. They seemed to get the translations and reflections. The rotations caused some problems.
Here's a video that may help:
Hope everyone has a great evening!
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