Our Wonderings and Explorations for Tuesday - Jan 10th and Wednesday - Jan 11th

By Anonymous -
In our grand conversations we often have an opportunity to highlight a specific vocabulary word.  We use many different thinking strategies to learn new words and this is an example of one of them.  Building a web of our understanding of the word using connected concepts and words.  For example, look at the word intense.  If we break it apart into morphographs we have in and tense.  Here is a picture of the connected web we made to understand this word.  See if you can show your mom and dad how this works by building a web at home.
An important step in learning new vocabulary is to use it over and over again yourself, in sentences that you create.  

Here are some examples of some of the sentences students wrote for the new word majestic: 

The majestic lion roared loudly.  SA
The majestic  lion is walking with pride in the Savannah.  - TA
Why are people destroying the majestic rainforests?  - KW
Why are people not listening to the majestic rainforest? -- JB
Why are people destroying our majestic earth through deforestation and pollution?  -- NB
Why are people destroying the majestic animals ecosystems and habitats?  
The humungous, majestic, powerful, elephant picked up the tiny piece of garbage and placed it in the garbage can.  - AT
Are the majestic silverbacks going to lead their troop out of danger?  -- MF

We've been learning about multiplication and today we tried showing it with stacking cubes (a special thank you to Mrs. Steckly for lending us these). Each person had two different colors to use to show the number of groups and objects in a group being multiplied. Here's an array:



This can represent 2 X 12 = 24 , because you have a pink group with 12 and a green group with 12 
It can also represent 4 X 6 = 24 because you have 4 rows with 6 cubes in them. 
This model is powerful because it also illustrates fractions for example half of 6 is 3 and half of 24 is 12.  This use of manipulatives (blocks helps us to visualize numbers).  



 What multiplication sentence does this represent?

Look at this collaboration!



What is 8 X 4?  Can you see that half of 8 = 4?  Can you see how 2, 4 and 8 are connected?  Isn't math intense?  

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