Thursday, March 23, 2006
An Afternoon of Learning Centers!!!
Well Boys and Girls,
It looks like we have successfully completed our "Shape and Space" section. Just think of all the things that we learned and we can now use everyday, from planning our daily schedules to knowing how compare to weight, length, and capacity.
To celebrate the completion of this unit we are going to have a learning center afternoon. All day you can visit the centers set up in class and enhance your skills.
We will have 4 themed centers, and I bet you can guess them......
The first center will be "Tick Tock Time". In this center you can time different wind up toys racing on our special track. You will have to predict which toy you think will win, take everyone's votes and everyone will explain why they think their toy will win, then compare everyone's choice to the toy that actually won.
The second center will be "Capacity City". Here you will see 5 different containers of different sizes and shapes. They will be filled with peas, jelly beans , buttons, popcorn and cotton balls. Based on your knowledge of capacity you will have to guess which container is holding the most. You will then order then from "holds the least" to "holds the most". Then you will estimate the number of items in each container. The student which is the closest will win a prize at the end of the day!
It looks like we have successfully completed our "Shape and Space" section. Just think of all the things that we learned and we can now use everyday, from planning our daily schedules to knowing how compare to weight, length, and capacity.
To celebrate the completion of this unit we are going to have a learning center afternoon. All day you can visit the centers set up in class and enhance your skills.
We will have 4 themed centers, and I bet you can guess them......
The first center will be "Tick Tock Time". In this center you can time different wind up toys racing on our special track. You will have to predict which toy you think will win, take everyone's votes and everyone will explain why they think their toy will win, then compare everyone's choice to the toy that actually won.
The second center will be "Capacity City". Here you will see 5 different containers of different sizes and shapes. They will be filled with peas, jelly beans , buttons, popcorn and cotton balls. Based on your knowledge of capacity you will have to guess which container is holding the most. You will then order then from "holds the least" to "holds the most". Then you will estimate the number of items in each container. The student which is the closest will win a prize at the end of the day!
# posted by Melissa Herridge @ 4:05 PM 
