Fantastic Flip Grid Fractions

Fantastic Flip Grid Fractions

The class has been studying fractions for a couple of chapters. 

Fractions are a part of a whole. When you take a slice out of a whole, like you would take a slice out of a pizza, you are using fractions! 

The numerator, or top number in a fraction, represents how many pieces are used/shaded. The denominator, or bottom number, shows how big each piece is. 

photo by Ms. Tulbure

Fractions can be used often in our world. For example, when you have a party and want to know how much food to make, or how many pieces out of one pizza a person will eat, you will use fractions to decide how to divide up the food. Or perhaps you're making goodie bags and you've bought a pack of pencils- you need to find out what fraction of the total pencils you'll give to each person. 

Sometimes, you need to compare fractions. You may compare fractions with the same numerator, or the same denominator. What a whirlwind of learning!

Students used Flipgrid to show their knowledge of comparing fractions. 

Below is the Flipgrid for Comparing Fractions with the Same Denominator

Below is the Flipgrid for Comparing Fractions with the Same Numerator

Finally, here is the Flipgrid for finding Equivalent Fractions. 

More Flipgrids to come as they get published. 

What strategy was new to you?

What new information did you learn about fractions?

Welcome Back 2017

Welcome Back to the 2017-2018 New School Year!

Yesterday was our first day of school!

We jumped right in and started our adventure! 

In the morning, students and families lined up to meet the teacher and hear a few opening remarks from the principal.

Photo by Ms. Tulbure

Students are ready to begin the day!

In class, we began by getting to know each other through teamwork and games.  

After recess, we opened up and categorized all the supplies. Later, students had fun "building" using the Kleenex boxes and the paper towels. They used teamwork and perseverance to build a pyramid. 

What does perseverance mean?

All Photos by Ms. Tulbure

The tissue boxes are rectangular prisms, while the paper towels are cylinders.

Magnificent balancing work!

Today we also played another teamwork game. Each team was given a stack of index cards. Teams were asked to build the tallest tower. However, in order to use a card, they had to find out one thing they all had in common and write it on the card before it could be added to the structure. Teams worked together and asked a lot of questions.....and build some creative towers!

All photos by Ms. Tulbure

 

Parents & Students


Here are some links for you to peruse as we start our year of learning together:

This educational blog is the centerpiece of our classroom community. It is a wonderful space for sharing and learning together. Here is a link to an article Mrs. Yollis wrote about the benefits of classroom blogging. I hope you'll have a chance to read it before our Back to School Night.

Let's start blogging!

Students, please leave a comment telling us about yourself. What did you do over your summer break? What adventures and experiences did you enjoyed?



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