Making Bug Houses from Base Ten Blocks!

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Making Bug Houses from Base Ten Blocks!

posted Sep 12, 2017, 11:30 AM by Patrick Johnson

Students made bug houses out of base ten blocks!

The Task: Students could choose up to 16 base ten blocks to construct a bug house. Afterwards, students counted the value of the blocks. The value became the address of the bug house.

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Language

Reading

-Reader's Theatre

-Determining important information and summarizing non-fiction articles

-Non-fiction text features

-The Power to Visualise what we are reading

-The Power to Connect (making deep thinking connections)

-Making predictions (Cover, Author, Title, Picture Flick)

-Check for Understanding (summarizing what we have read)

-The Power to Connect (making connections from the text to our own lives)

Writing

-Writing in paragraphs

-Writing and researching reports (non-fiction)

-Writing paragraphs that includes a main idea

-Creating graphic organizers to help narrow down our topic and plan our writing (idea cakes and word webs)

-Writing procedures and instructions

-Writing recounts

-Daily/creative writing- Narrowing down writing ideas

-building vocabulary

-changing ends on words

Math

-Finding mode for a data set.

-counting up strategy for subtraction

-Creating surveys and representing data on pictographs and bar graphs

-Venn Diagrams, sorting data sets

-3 digit addition and subtraction (including money)

-Location and movement on a grid

-Adding and subtracting with carrying and borrowing

-Counting money amounts to $10

-Finding perimeter

-measuring in cm, m and km. Picking the appropriate unit of measure

-Solving problems involving 1 and 2 digit numbers

-Counting by 2s, 5s, 10s, 25s

-Strategies for answering multiple choice questions

-Mental math (addition and subtraction)

-representing numbers to 100 and beyond (for examples using base ten, tally marks, arrays, place value, expanded form etc)

Gym/Health

-basketball

-balances

-fitness, cooperative games

-safety

Science

-Animal structures versus human structures, impact on enviroment

-strong and stable structures

-exploring and identifying forces

-S.T.E.A.M. activities

WORD STUDY

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Explore Non-Fiction

American Museum of Natural History (kids)

National Geographic Kids- Animals

PebbleGo

Britannica School (login: simcodsb password: simc7729)

Tumblebooks (login: SCDSB password books)
Skillwise
Red Fish (K-1)
Raz-Kids
The Magic Key- Interactive stories that reinforce punctuation and other skills
Variety of Language Games
Bitstrips (class code: goo011)

Grammar

Adjective Game

Practice Your Sight Words!
Pre-Primer
Primer
Grade 1
Grade 2
Grade 3

Practice your sight words with these audio power point books!

Making Words
Make words with the Word Wizard

Making Bug Houses from Base Ten Blocks!

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