Monday, March 20, 2006
Popcorn in Class??
Hello Grade 1's!!
Well you kids are busy after school aren't you? You have schedules busier than mine. It was nice to see that you all completed your homework. What a good class I have!
Today was interesting wasn't it? We learned about capacity, or in other words how much something can hold. We played with different shaped jars and popcorn and we discovered that when you are comparing how much containers hold it is better to use the same shaped containers. Today however we were detectives and used different sized containers to see which ones would hold more.
This is a fun capacity game you should give it a try!
http://www.abc.net.au/countusin/games/game15.htm
Miss Herridge
NOTE TO PARENTS: Today in class the students had different shaped jars and predicted and ordered which jar would hold the most and which jar would hold the least. I had the kids place tape on the sides of the jars. Each group would use a scoop and place one scoop of popcorn in each container, then place a mark on the tape. They continued this until the jars were full. Based on the data they collected they ordered the jars again, and compared their results to their original predictions. We discussed the results as a class.
Well you kids are busy after school aren't you? You have schedules busier than mine. It was nice to see that you all completed your homework. What a good class I have!
Today was interesting wasn't it? We learned about capacity, or in other words how much something can hold. We played with different shaped jars and popcorn and we discovered that when you are comparing how much containers hold it is better to use the same shaped containers. Today however we were detectives and used different sized containers to see which ones would hold more.
This is a fun capacity game you should give it a try!
http://www.abc.net.au/countusin/games/game15.htm
Miss Herridge
NOTE TO PARENTS: Today in class the students had different shaped jars and predicted and ordered which jar would hold the most and which jar would hold the least. I had the kids place tape on the sides of the jars. Each group would use a scoop and place one scoop of popcorn in each container, then place a mark on the tape. They continued this until the jars were full. Based on the data they collected they ordered the jars again, and compared their results to their original predictions. We discussed the results as a class.
# posted by Melissa Herridge @ 6:22 PM 
