We have made it through the first unit of Hands-On Equations. The children are doing a fabulous job. Remember to practice skip counting the digits 1 - 9. If they can do that it will help tremendously. Next week they will take a test. This is similar to the pretest they looked at when we began the unit. Then on Feb. 29 we'll introduce the next level of difficulty (-x). Yes, they will do equations with negative numbers.
We moved onto PETS visual thinking skills. Today they had tangram activities that had the student not use one piece of the tangram set to solve the puzzle. They are so used to using all seven pieces that this activity proved to be bit difficult for some. These activities develop the connection between our eyes, thinking and require the students to use deductive thinking to solve the puzzles.
Many of the students are working each week to learn how to solve the Rubik's Cube puzzle. This ties in so well with our visual thinking skills I am encouraging them to continue working on it at home if they have a cube. Unfortunately I just don't have enough cubes to allow mine to be checked out.
Remember, book orders are due to me tomorrow or to be placed on line by Friday.
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