Angle Fun and More

Friday, February 21, 2014

Hi Everyone,

We hope you found the Bright Ideas Hop useful.  We are not quite ready to link into it yet.  We're still just "getting our feet wet" as we learn the ins and outs of it.  But, we do want to share some more ideas that we hope you can use in your classroom.

In math we have been sharing our students based on their needs.  We want to make sure students that need enrichment are receiving it and are being challenged.  We also want to make sure that students who want to work at a slower pace have that opportunity.  One of the ways we enriched our students this week was learning about obtuse, acute, and right angles.  This is not in our second grade curriculum, but it was a great extension for our geometry unit.  Once again we used lessons from Aims Education.  They were called Angle Aerobics, Angles More or Less and Angle Hunt. The kids loved making the different types of angles with their bodies and going on their angle hunt in the classroom.  As an extreme challenge at the end, we went to the BBC Bite Size angle game to learn about the different degrees of angles.

Students wrote a reflection to demonstrate their learning.

The other group worked on finding compliments of multiples of ten.  This is extremely challenging for them, but we found an app called Math Tappers: Find Sums.  This provided excellent visuals of the compliment process, and it was easier for students to find those compliments.  This was a great springboard into using the base-ten blocks to help them solve problems in their journal pages.

42 + ? = 60  The students could easily see the answer was 18.

We are continuing with our Native American unit and our study of folktales.  After reading and discussing The Great Ball Game or Why Little Bat Has No Friends, students had to find the six most important parts of the story so they could summarize it.  To do this, they had to go back and closely read the text and make judgements as to what was the most important.  We came together, shared ideas, and then created a summary wheel.

We had a fun week at school.  We look forward to sharing more with you next week.

Kim and Anne