This post is a little later than usual, but there's a good reason for that - the hubby and I got away for a fabulous weekend together! This is a definite RARE occasion, but something we need to do more often! We treated ourselves to a beautiful suite (gorgeous), dined well (too well) on delicious food, shopped til we dropped (my legs are still screaming), and I even went to my first NHL game! What a GREAT time!
So, on to the math journals. We've been back at school for two weeks and, in keeping with my new year's resolution, I made sure to do at least one foldable a week. The first foldable had a New Year's theme - we made a foldable of the date 2012, and I had the students write three goals (or resolutions) inside. They needed to set one goal related to their notebooks (neatness, completeness, organization, etc.), one goal related to group work (we do a lot of paired and group activities related to problem-solving - and with my crew this year, sometimes it's not the math problem that needs solved ...), and one goal related to test preparation. I like that the students made their goals concrete by recording them, and when problem does arise, we can go back and discuss the goals they made.
With the start of our new measurement unit, and our focus on the "metric staircase" this week (see last post), I thought it was only fitting that we complete the metric staircase as a foldable in our math journals. On the outside of the foldable we recorded the metric prefixes, and on the inside we recorded the mnemonic device, "King Henry Does Usually Drink Chocolate Milk", as well as the numerical values (when the base unit is 1). The still seems a little plain to me - too much white space inside. Does anyone have any great ideas on what we could add to them? Thursday and Friday we spent a lot of time working on the actual conversions - I've got a neat conversion activity for our journals planned for Tuesday. I can't wait to share it with you in my next math journal post!
Happy Sunday!!!
With the start of our new measurement unit, and our focus on the "metric staircase" this week (see last post), I thought it was only fitting that we complete the metric staircase as a foldable in our math journals. On the outside of the foldable we recorded the metric prefixes, and on the inside we recorded the mnemonic device, "King Henry Does Usually Drink Chocolate Milk", as well as the numerical values (when the base unit is 1). The still seems a little plain to me - too much white space inside. Does anyone have any great ideas on what we could add to them? Thursday and Friday we spent a lot of time working on the actual conversions - I've got a neat conversion activity for our journals planned for Tuesday. I can't wait to share it with you in my next math journal post!
