Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Graphs, short stories, word meanings -- a great day in sixth grade

In math today we worked with line plots.  Again, it is another way of organizing information.  It went quite well.  It went so well, in fact, that we had time to play “3 Strikes You’re Out.”  I think of a number then each student asks me a question that can be answered with a yes or a no.  I then put all on board, so that they can see the facts that we have come up with.  Then students may guess at any time, but if they guess before they have enough information, they will probably miss it.  They don’t get a strike unless they guess wrong.  This is great for reasoning, questioning, and applying information.

In spelling we read a short story that used our words from our list and did workbook pages 18 and 19 in our workbook.

In language we worked with words that have more than one meaning. 

I hope everyone has a great Tuesday evening.

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