Today, I went to one of the few elementary schools in Salem-Keizer that I haven't been to yet! There are only 3 left out of the 47 total.
Anyway, it was second grade and they were pleasant.
We did pretty basic stuff during the day. I could list it all but I doubt it would be that thrilling. We played a math "game" that they (surprisingly, to me) really liked. Basically it involved rolling a pair of special dice (one had numbers 0-5 and the other had 5-10) and charting the totals as they came up. I was going to go through and have everyone roll once, (21 kids) but they were so interested we ended up going around twice. They had no concept at the beginning that the numbers in the middle would be more likely to turn up because there are more combinations of numbers to get them, but I sure hope they did by the end! I stopped many times to re-emphasize how we had many more 7s and 10s and 11s that we did 5s or 15s. Then we talked about how many combinations of the dice would add up to 10 and how many would add up to 5. They seemed have a better understanding by the end, and our graph very cooperatively showed the increase in probability toward the middle of the number set.
Yay for math.
Also, yay for Mad Libs: great savior of those last 10 minutes of the day when you have nothing left to do but it's too early to pack up to go home! (And it's educational - parts of speech and all.) ;)
1 comment:
I can't believe you have been to 44 of 47 schools! That's impressive! Good job on the probability lesson. I sure I could have learned something myself. It's nice you had a good experience in a new school.
Love you!!!
MOM
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