Second grade went on a FABULOUS field trip today and had a gorgeous day for it, which means I didn’t get to see them at all.

We are almost done with our What’s the Missing Side assignment. Students completed a gallery walk today. During their gallery walk they look at the work produced by the other groups and offer constructive criticism designed to make their visual proofs stronger. This is the second time they’ve done this type of activity and they were even better this time than last. Students then took the suggestions, read them, applied or discarded them as appropriate and are in the process of creating a final copy that will hang in the hall next to their visual proofs for multiplication. While this activity took many days to complete, it really does help students to understand what is going on when they divide.

Third grade math continued to work on their graphing activity. We’ve had quite a few bumps, but despite this students claim this is the MOST FUN EVER. I may need to switch up my game or risk losing my title as dungeon keeper. We’ll continue to work on graphing next week, as this tends to be a weirdly difficult concept to master when you take into account all of the little rules students must be able to apply when it comes time to show off their understanding on the SOL test.