Mrs. Spence’s Class

You may think that there can’t be any more learning in late May… but that’s not true in our classroom! We’re working on building our brains and making them even smarter! We have a rotation set up and each day we make one to two rotations. Each rotation has a brain building activity. After each activity we respond with what we did and what we learned. Here are our activities:

dominoes…

These students are trying to make multiples of 5 with their seven dominoes. If they can’t play, they have to pull from the bone pile.

brick-by-brick…

Students have a design to make using bricks (see the cards?) Notice that the bricks have different combinations. They have to guess and check to try their luck building the designs.

Battleship…

The boys are using ordered pairs and strategies to locate their opponent’s ships. They sure are doing a great job keeping track of their “hits”!

puzzles…

There were several puzzles to choose from… this student is connecting bugs. The shapes that can be made are amazing!

…. trying to match the pieces with all the other pieces…

…finding the right wheel is really a challenge!

checkers…

A game of skill and strategy.

drawing…

Students had a choice of different drawing activities: drawing, tracing, or pencil rubbing. S-t-r-e-t-c-h that brain!

tangrams…

….very creative!

computers…

This rainforest website had really neat activities. We could even try out other grade level problems - 6th grade was fun!

Even though we’re officially in school until June 5, learning is still fun and continuing. What other games can you think of that would involve “brain building”? Let me know! Send a comment.

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