We read the book "Sir Cumference and All the King's Tens." Sir
Cumference and his wife have a hard time counting all of the king's
party guests until they group themselves in tens, then hundreds, then
thousands. The king has 9,999 guests.
After reading
the book and discussing place value for a few minutes, the kids got in teams and played a board game about place value.
Wednesday, November 11, 2015
11/5 - Tangrams
We read two books about tangrams this week. First was "Grandfather
Tang's Story" by Ann Tompert. Then we played with tangrams for a
while. Tangrams are an ancient Chinese puzzle consisiting of 7 pieces: 5
triangles, 1 parallelogram, and 1 square. The kids tried to make the
animal shapes from the book as well as some shapes on worksheets I
provided, then they worked on creating things from their imaginations
(they did an awesome job). At the end of class, we read "The Warlord's
Puzzle" by Virginia Walton Pilegard. One of the puzzles we had been
working on was how to fit all of the tangram pieces into a square and
this book gave the solution to the square puzzle.
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