What do you get when you merge math, reading/writing, and science all together into one activity? You get excited students eagerly making birthday hats. Yes, these hats may be simple objects but one must look deeper to understand that these hats show true learning in progress! Yesterday in math we explored 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional shapes. The students searched the classroom for 3-dimensional shapes and each student shared the shape they discovered with the class. This gave them a great foundation for an activity planned for the following day. This week we have been exploring the moon and the stars through literature. Today we read Happy Birthday, Moon by Frank Asch (reading). The students were delighted by this tale of Bear giving the Moon a hat for his birthday. Enter the birthday hats or shall I say our 3-dimensional cone shaped objects (math). The students decorated their hats by writing and drawing something that they learned about the moon or the sun (science and writing). Who would have thought that so many common core areas could be addressed with one activity! This Padawan, as Ms. Roper would like to call me, is learning as much from the students as they are learning from me!
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