Place Value Manipulatives

This week the students had an opportunity to work with place value pockets (Thank you, Kim Sutton!) and a place value chart to model large numbers.  Below is a picture of the tools used.

To find other items by Kim Sutton go to:  http://www.creativemathematics.com/learn/

Cave Art With Homemade Paint

Last Friday the class used homemade paint made from mostly natural ingredients to create cave paintings of Ice Age animals.  This art lesson fits in well with our unit on Canada's First Peoples.  Below you will see a picture of our classroom cave with wooly mammoths, giant elk, bears, wooly rhinoceroses, horses, giant beavers, oxen, and smilodons displayed in the cave, a couple of pictures of the process, and a few close-ups of the individual student pieces.

Our Class Cave

The first step was to draw a picture of the animal on brown paper.

After drawing, the students crumpled their papers to make it look more rock-like and then they began to paint.  Each student also painted one hand and made a hand print beside the animal painting as a signature.  Once the paint was dry, the students used black charcoal to outline the animals and define some of the features.

Horse

Sabre Tooth Tiger

Oxen

Giant Elk

Horse