Conder ALERT students had an extremely fun and produtive day today. After the last few Friday's of weather and workdays it felt like I hadn't seen them in forever. They solved tons of a new type of math puzzle - that most of them took one look at and were sure they didn't understand - it took one kid to get up and explain what she thought was the right way to solve the problem and pretty much everyone was off and rolling from there. They were asking to race each other, some of them even wanted to race me. I did not go undefeated, one of the fifth graders finished 1 question ahead of me. They explored the nets of triangular prisms and what those had to do with roof shapes in architecture. They decided on a final house for their project build, created their door ruler (scaling ruler), and did the final octile scaling for their building sketch.
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ALERT students at Conder began their exploration of nets (the 2D version of 3D shapes). They started with a few shapes to cut, fold, and tape, over the next 2 weeks they will see more nets - then will have an opportunity to use these shapes to build buildings that reflect different styles of architecture. They spent some time researching different styles of architecture, to help them make a more informed decision about the building that they will choose for their final ALERT architecture project that will begin soon. Their Minecraft structure build challenge is going extremely well, they are showing a great deal of thought and creativity in their designs and reasonings behind why they built it the way that they did. We will hopefully have some final builds to showcase in the next few weeks as they finish that up. |
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