educational reflections with Mr. P, OCT (formerly Rumblings from 52): Thursday, May 9, 2013

Thursday, May 9, 2013

This morning we spent some time reviewing the final Math test for Data Management on Mean, Median, and Mode. It was a challenging test but I noticed that a number of students were checking their work and making corrections.

The opportunity to correct their work, and hopefully understand it, is in the form of a Rewrite. I have posted this before, but it is worth asking your son or daughter if they are going to do this to help improve his or her understanding of the material.

I also handed out a sheet detailing the Book Talk assignment. The presentations for this will begin on May 28. Here is the handout:

As part of the Art portion of the assignment, I would like the students to try something different: A Diorama!

According to dictionary.com, it is:

noun

a scene, often in miniature, reproduced in three dimensions by placing objects, figures, etc., in front of a painted background.

a life-size display representing a scene from nature, a historical event, or the like, using stuffed wildlife, wax figures, real objects, etc., in front of a painted or photographed background.

from: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/diorama?s=t

Here are some images of some dioramas I took from the Internet:

Obviously I don't intend to see productions like the one on the right, but this will give you an ideas of just how dynamic these can be.

In the afternoon, we had a little tournament of a game that will prep the students for doing some work in Geography and Geometry. It is a game called Gridlock and is meant to keep to introduce the students to the idea of coordinate locations on a grid. Here are some images from the game's activities: