Happy Tuesday, everyone!
What a wonderful morning of learning we had together!
It was so great to finally meet Ms. Sandy and get our Math-writing residency underway!
Here are a few pictures to show you what we accomplished together this morning.
After saying, "Hello" and shaking hands with Ms. Sandy, Ms. Sandy started celebrating the wonderful letters we wrote to her. She noticed something great in each of our letters and took the time to
answer all of the questions we asked her.
After she celebrated us, Ms. Sandy shared more about herself. She showed us a PowerPoint filled with pictures of where she lives, her family and her students. The picture on the screen is right at the Arizona/Mexican border.
We asked about the construction of "the wall" and what she thought about it.
She also played her favourite song, "What a Wonderful World" by Louis Armstrong while Mme Careen showed us the pictures from the book with the same title.
After a long time of sitting and listening, we took time for a brain break!
We learned that Ms. Sandy's students often play Simon Says for their brain breaks just like we do!
Mme Careen tried to stump us, but we're getting too good!
After our brain break, we got back to work!
Next on the agenda was reading through all of the great ideas we contributed to our
"What Do Good Technical Writers Do?" chart. It was so great to hear everyone's voices!
Here, Ms. Sandy is sharing a published Math technical writing piece that another school here in Winnipeg has written. Ms. Sandy worked with Robert Andrews School back in February.
Their writing piece focused on the order of operations.
She showed examples of how we can include an introduction and a closing for each of the problems. We also noticed that their manual contained a title, a table of contents and a glossary -
all things that we had noted on our "Technical Writing" chart.
Here we are looking over the shared write of the Math mobile problem we did yesterday as a class.
After rereading it together as a group, we made a few changes to our thinking; adding in missed words, changing other words to be more specific and discussing that we should likely include an Author's Note to explain the PEDMAS concept in more detail for our reader.
After this, things in our room got very busy!
The last part of morning involved us getting into groups of 3 and picking our mobile problem that we'll be writing on over the next 3 days. We found a spot at the white board (one group worked on a small board on the floor) and got to work solving our problem. While we were working, Ms. Sandy and Mme Careen visited each group to listen to our thinking. Ms. Sandy wrote our key "language thinking" ideas onto a post-it note so that we know how to start off our writing tomorrow. Mme Careen took pictures of our work so we can have a guide of our "Math thinking."
The morning flew by and we barely even noticed the 25 visitors in our room with us! :)
We all worked so well as a group and contributed so much to today's lessons.
We can't wait to see what we'll start our day off with tomorrow!
Thanks for sharing your learning journey with us!
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