Learning, Learning, Learning...

I love this time of year! The kids are settled into routines and we can really take off with new and fun activities. We have been reading The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. Even though most of us saw the movie, the kids are loving the book. It's so much fun to read it with them. Today we started a project to show that we are "comprehending" what we read. They are making a "post card accordian folder". They jumped right into work and I put the CD of their music program songs on. They were singing while they worked! I was so proud of them!After that, it was time for math. We are starting to work with different kinds of graphs. Graphing requires having some data to graph. One way to gather data is to take a survey. Yesterday, the students brainstormed things a fourth grader might do in a typical 24 hour time period. Next, they came up with five questions for the survey.

• How much time did you spend reading?
• How much time did you spend sleeping?
• How much time did you spend coming to school and going home?
• How much time did you spend playing video games or on the computer?
• How much time did you watch T.V.?

Oh, look! There is the need to figured out some elapsed time in these questions. Hmmm....I wonder how that happened! :) Answering these questions was their homework assignment. Today, we spent time compiling the data.

Next week, we will graph this information in a variety of ways. It should be fun!