Happy Friday before a Saturday Halloween, Scorpion Families!
We hope you enjoyed the Art Walk last weekend and had a chance to see all the art and goodies that will be up for grabs at our upcoming Fall Festival.
It has been a rather calm, but busy, week (knock on wood), with dictation practice and geometry lessons on lines, angles, congruence, similarity, and equivalence. The most exciting follow-up work, if we judge by the sheer amount of classroom real estate it took up, was a small group exploring curved and straight lines with LOTS of sticks and LOTS of yarn. They used every small piece in our scrap jar. I have never seen it so empty this early in the year! I was waiting to see if they would notice the different types of lines they could make with the yarn. Coming soon, perhaps.
Yes, this work is still rather popular and has continued from last week. I used it as a jumping-off point for introducing the nomenclature of lines, rays, and line segments, which necessitated tidying up the aforementioned stick and yarn explosion. (See how I snuck that in there?)
We also had lessons with the Flat Bead Frame (also known as the Golden Bead Frame or Horizontal Bead Frame), the Checkerboard, and the infamous Racks and Tubes. On the Checkerboard, the big work underway is exploring what happens when we multiply multi-digit numbers made up of the same repeated digit (such as 11,111 or 2,222) by other multi-digit numbers with the same repeated digit (such as 1,111 or 22).
It is just a “tidbit” this week, so I shall endeavor to include October pictures with next month's web update.
Have a safe and wonderful Halloween weekend.
Housekeeping: Our guinea pigs and finches need a Thanksgiving break vacation home. Pickup on or before November 24, with a return around November 30, would be wonderful. Please let me know if you can help.