Thinking about Non Fiction and Math Daily 5

We started our living things project by researching something living together. Yesterday we talked about Text to World Connections and asked ourselves "What do we know about the ant world?"

We wrote down what we thought we knew about ants and added it to our chart. We then read a few sections of a Non fiction ant book and listened for our ideas. If we heard our facts mentioned...we moved them to "confirmed. "If we didnt, they stayed under "What I think I know" If we thought something and then realized it wasnt correct, we move it to "misconceptions."

I love this idea for kids as it allows them to move their ideas around on sticky notes and organize their information.

"What I think I know"   "Confirmed"  "Misconceptions"  "New Information"   "Wonderings"

FREEBIE

(Here are the titles for a RAN Chart..fonts courtesy of Kevin and Amanda )

Now onto Math Daily 5!

I run my math the same as I run my Daily 5 literacy in the Morning. Here are the kids choices:

Math by Myself
Math with Someone
Math Writing
Math Work

I would love to have Math Technology, but I don't have a Smartboard or anything yet :(

Here are a few of the activities my kids are choosing from right now:

Math with Someone: Double It! FREEBIE

( students need a deck of cards Ace-10 and 10 game pieces each. You turn over a card and read the math talk card . EX: you turn over a 3, you say " the double of 3 is 6." Then you look for a 6 on the game board and cover it. The first person to get rid of all ten counters is the winner. )

Math by Myself: Backwards Number Sort

Math by Myself: Alligator Greater than Less Than (there is a recording page for this)

Math by Myself: 1 More 1 Less

(The recording page is from http://fun-n-first.blogspot.ca/)

Math Writing: Question of the Day

Math by Myself: Number Puzzles

Math Work: Replicating Patterns

Math Work: Tangrams

Math Writing: Number of the Day