Building Patterns

Understanding patterns is a beginning math skill for young kids.  Patterns help children realize there is order in the world around them as well as with mathematical concepts. My first graders used colored cubes , counters, and beads to create and extend patterns.

Make a Survey

Grade 3  are learning how to make a survey,they were asked to create a research question ,collect data from their peers,and then organize it in a tally chart and a frequency table .

This assignment is highly engaging as students love to share about themselves and find out about their peers.

Interviews In Grade 3 Class

Communication is the heart of organization. Therefore good reading, writing, speaking and listening skills are a result of a good communication. Interviewing was a method conducted by grade three students with their relatives about their interests and hobbies to improve their communication skills and to enhance their oral fluency skill.  Our youngsters brought their recorded interviews to class and shared them with their friends.

Writing Activity

 

                                           

 

Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. Also, it is the ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. Therefore, our third graders were distributed in groups according to the first letter of their names to fill the organizer of their narrative descriptive story. At the end, each group had the chance to present the work to the other groups. The aim of this activity was to encourage my students to fill their webs before writing their stories.

 

 

 

New Cooperative Strategies in our Math and Science Classes!

Three-minute Papers:

Every day at the end of the math and science sessions, I ask my students to work in pairs and comment on the following questions:
1-What was the most important or useful thing you learned today?
2-What two important questions do you still have; what remains unclear?
3-What would you like to know more about?
I give my students exactly 3 minutes to submit the “Three-minute paper” to me.
I use these papers to begin the next day’s discussion. This activity provides me with a feedback on where the student is in his/her understanding of the materials taught, and foster students’ voice.

Group Annotations:
At the end of every week, I ask my students to form groups of 4 members each to review the lessons they took in this week. Students discuss key points and look for divergent and convergent thinking and ideas.
Finally each group prepares annotations in the form of a concept map that summarizes the lesson they studied and represent their annotations in front of the whole class.

An Apple a Day, keeps the Doctor Away!

The KG2 students have been learning about Community Helpers, and fun in the Neighbourhood. While investigating the Doctors, we discovered that we should eat healthy foods. The best way to learn and remember to eat healthily, is to make it fun. So on Thursday, Miss Joumana letlet the KG2 students make their own snack!
First, the students identified the different fruits they had brought to school, and their initial sound. They waited patiently while Miss Joumana peeled the fruit and distributed it to the students for them to cut up themselves.
The students all had a plastic knife and cut up the apple, orange, banana, (and red group had a Kiwi, thank you Mohamad Ali! Several of the students saw the brown skin and thought it was a potato, but when they saw it was furry and green inside, they realised that it wasn't, and were interested to know what it actually was! ) and clementine.
For hygiene purposes, Miss Joumana covered all of the tables with a disposable tablecloth, and gave each student their own cup with their name on it. Therefore they cut their own fruit salad for snack, and ate only from their own food.
The students had a lot of fun cutting their fruit, and felt a great sense of accomplishment with completing their fruit salad themselves.
Well done KG2. 
No more chocolate for second snack!!!!

Math and Science First Term Stars!

It’s such an amazing feeling to get the results of your effort and the hard work of your students!

I want to congratulate our first term Math and science stars, the first 2 top achievers in both math and science.

Grade 2: Omar Imad- Ahmad Itani

Grade 3: Saffiya Ahmad- Mostapha Sarafedine

Grade 4: Khaled Ghawi – Layana Shbaro- Aded Al Rahman Sukkar

Grade 5: Moataz Maarouf- Jana Keshawy- Ali Ahmad

Grade 6: Rasha Sukkar- Ahmad Imad

The LCM and GCF Scavenger Hunt

The Scavenger Hunt provided a fun way for grade 6 students to practice finding the LCM and GCF of math word problems.

 I distributed for every student “LCM and GCF word problem cards”. Students started at any card and solved the problem. They then searched for the card with the answer to that problem. The search continued until all 8 problems were solved. As students were traveling around the classroom completing the scavenger hunt, they recorded their answers on the record sheet. My students and I loved this activity because it got students out of their seats and triggered cooperative learning among them. It was a great way to have fun in our Math class!