This week we read a non-fiction article about the moon phases. Then, we played Moon Phases Bingo! Mrs. Wanke asked us questions about the moon phases based upon the information in the article. We had to refer back to the article to answer these questions in order to mark the answers on our BINGO card.
This week Mrs. Wanke stumbled upon a website that would allow us to track the different moon phases. (Thank you Pinterest!)
You can print up this calendar and record what the moon looks like every night.
If you are interested, chart the moon phases at home. After one complete cycle, 29.5 days, bring your sheet(s) back for a very special prize!
Also, this week we used a lot of different math skills to make a kite! Unfortunately, they won't actually fly, but boy are they nice to look at.
Mrs. Wanke started off by giving each of us a set of measurements for our kite. (The height, width, and tail length) First, we had to draw a line on our paper to be the height of our kite. Then, we had to first figure our half of our width, to make sure our kite was symmetrical. After we found half of the width, we place the ruler at the half way mark on the height line and drew a line for the width. Now we had a big t shape on our paper. We use our ruler to connect all 4 points together to give us the kite shape.
After our kite shape was created and cut out, we had to make a take according the measurements Mrs. Wanke gave us. We also had to create a pattern with bows on the kite's tail.
Lastly, to wrap up our kit project, we had to measure the kite in inches and centimeters, identify the type of patter we created on our tail, verify if our kite was in fact symmetrical, and write an equation using any of the measurements to took from our kite.
The end product is a beautiful display of kites in the hallway! They look like they are flying the hallway.
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