Since returning from the winter holidays, students in Room 214 have already been hard at work continuing with their learning of how to sort and categorize objects using various attributes. Our classroom was also very lucky this week to have Mrs. Christine Rowe-Quinn, our Family of Schools Math Coach, come for a visit to see us in action.
Students began this work before the holiday, but we revisited and reinforced these concepts this week using 'Woozles' (pictured below). These funny germ-like creatures have various attributes such as dots, colours (they were coloured red and blue), fuzziness and shape that can help us to sort them into various categories.
Please click here. to print a set at home to try with your child. Print two copies and use a different colour to colour each set (one set of eight will be one colour, the other set of eight a different colour). Then cut them out and sort away!
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| Woozle Cards (uncoloured) |
We asked students to work in teams to create categories using the attributes listed above, then place their woozles into string loops depending on their sorting rules. Some students even decided to create their own Venn Diagrams, creating a middle category for commonalities between already sorted woozles. Wow!
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| Students sorting using 2 attributes! |
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| Mrs. Christine Rowe-Quinn discussing patterning with students |
We owe a big thank you to Christine for coming into our classroom and helping us all to become better mathematicians! THANK YOU!!!
