Ceversticks!

Twice a month we participate in multicultural lessons. Our most recent lesson was based on the story Cleversticks by Bernard Ashley. The story was about a boy named Ling Sung who didn't like school. He thought the other kids in his class were good at something, everyone except him. Ling Sung discovers he is good at something... "a cleverstick trick"and his whole class decides they want to do this trick too! Our ELL teacher brought us Chinese food from a local restaurant and chopsticks. We learned how to use the chopsticks and then put them to use! This was a great learning experience to experience something we may not normally try!

Geometry

In Everyday Math, we are starting a new unit on geometry. Today, the kids used their shape templates "to get ideas" and then drew with their finger on their partner's back a shape from the template (triangle, rhombus, hexagon, circle, etc). The other partner then had guess what shape was drawn on their back. The kids loved it! It was so fun!