Place Value Yahtzee!

Today in math we played Place Value Yahtzee!  It was like the real version of Yahtzee but you had specific place value qualifiers to fill such as a number with 3 in the tens place or a number whose digits add up to 11.  See if your child can tell you about the game!  

We are working on playing games, taking our turn, being patient, staying engaged and playing fairly. With more practice, we will get better.  

Daily Word Fun!

Today we started Daily Word Fun!

Each day students will have five problems to solve.  The first two are correcting sentences.  Errors include capitalization, verb tense and punctuation.  It is a bit of a challenge, but no doubt something they can do.  The last three problems can be a variety of things from compound word identification, alphabetical order, contractions or analogies.  It is a good way to review some basic language skills.

Famous Faces

This morning we had a visit from some famous people in history.  All sixth grade students at Brimhall research a famous person, write a speech, find or create a costume and become that person in a real life museum.

These kids did a wonderful job presenting their information and were very engaging in their presentation.  Thank you!  

Archimedes

Elvis Presley

Shirley Temple Black

Langston Hughes

Amelia Earhart

Yuri Gagarin

Cinderella!

Wow!  What an awesome time we had at the play "Cinderella" today!  It was very entertaining and everyone did a great job being a good audience and following directions.  It was a very modern version of the story complete with popular songs and other things that engaged the young audience.  Ask your child about her/his favorite part or parts!  

Math Games

Today we did a few math games!

Some students rollled a three digit number then made it in blocks, words and expanded form.  Other students played a two digit addition game using a spinner and calculator.  All students eventually played a 10 more/10 less game or 100 more/100 less game.  Ask your child what he/she played.

Everyone did a pretty good job playing!  We had to practice having control of the dice!  

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Cinderella

Before Winter break through this week we have been reading and discussing different versions of Cinderella.  After reading each one we have talked about the similarities and differences in the versions.   There are some very interesting versions!  See if your child can tell you a little about each one.

Today we watched:

Wednesday we will look at these two versions!  These are both nontraditional versions of Cinderella.