Flexing our thinking muscles on Thursday and Friday

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Ever heard of food web?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vtb3I8Vzlfg

 Well, take a look at us creating our own food web showing the connections with yarn.  Our class and Ms. Pearson's class decided to illustrate the interdependence on each part of the web during our nature challenge on Thursday.





Next, we decided to measure the perimeter of the school using the trundle wheels.  Can you guess the size of the perimeter?


great job sticking to the side of the building


Friday afternoon's nature challenge involved using chalk to create regular and irregular polygons and them measure the perimeter.  This was a challenged everybody to use their addition skills and mental math to figure out the total perimeter.  Just look at the mindful focus!



Who needs paper when you have chalk and a pathway?  

Teamwork!

Look at the careful observation and calculations.  


In the morning we worked on a division review and then I gave a division quiz.  Well done to all students they persisted and used their critical thinking to solve some word problems.  Here is an example we did together before the quiz to warm up our neurons.  






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