In math today, we had Tara join us who will be our student teacher in January. I taught a lesson planned by Will which starts with reading a chapter in Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone that describes Hagrid as being two times as tall as a normal man and five times as wide.The big idea of this lesson is to understand that how we collect our data is important. We also want students to understand mean, median, and mode.
We started with a conversation about what average means. Then we discussed how we could find out how big Hagrid is. We decided to use our own class as our baseline. Next, we discussed how we could take our measurements in a consistent manner so that our data was as accurate as possible. Students decided to round to the nearest half centimeter, to take their shoes off, to use meter sticks taped to the wall, and to read from the bottom edge of the ruler. For width, they stood next to the wall, placed the ruler along the person's back, and read from the inner edge of the ruler. In both, we were careful to place our guiding ruler perpindicularly to get an accurate reading.
Tomorrow, we will continue this lesson.
In Literacy, students started their very exciting movie making projects. Students were assigned groups and looked at a wide selection of picture books that they could potentially adapt into short films. They had a worksheet that helped them to visualize their choices. Students also found out that they will be pitching their movies to a professional movie director and producer. Each group will be expected to put together a professional package that will include a script, storyboard, location list, prop list, actors, etc. They will present this package to our two professionals next week.
Students were so engaged. I can tell this is going to be an exciting unit.
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