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This year marked Fayston School's first ever student-led Red Clover Day! Wow, everyone was busy, all hands were on deck, and the variety of activities offered something for all the senses. We had... a jungle collage created in the Art room, kindness rippling through the Kindergarden classroom, charades in the first and second grade classrooms, bow tie making in Mrs. Koch's classroom, fractal triangles being built in the Library, origami lions coming to life in Mrs. Lewis's classroom, a real live game of baseball in Mr. Bergstein's classroom, lemonade, limeade, and lemon-limeade making (from scratch) in Mrs. Vasseur's room, and a jungle picnic complete with three dinosaurs in the Cafeteria! Whew, I'm tired just summarizing. A big thanks to everyone who supported this day, especially to the students who came up with such a variety of offerings, families who donated and loaned the supplies, and Mr. Berthiaume who said he would come to the rescue if we needed additional lemons and limes! First and Second graders in Mrs. Boyden and Mrs. Goldhammer's classes have been studying REPRESENTATIONS in Math class. To go along with this study, we decided to introduce them to Google Forms. Within Google Forms, each student was able to ask a question. The guidelines were: write a multiple choice question; one question, four options. Below are just some examples of what students thought worthy of asking: Next, it was time to spread the word and crunch the numbers. Mrs. Boyden and Mrs. Goldhammer asked families to fill out the surveys via classroom blog. Ms. Schlageter tweeted the link, and Mr. Berthiaume shared the project at the School Board meeting. Most students had 30+ responses! When a Google Form is created, answers are collected in a spreadsheet. Each row holds someone's answer. First and second graders learned to tell the difference between their survey and spreadsheet. They "viewed the summary of results" which looked like a pie (or pizza) chart. They copied the data down onto their recording sheet so they could make yet another representation. The final step was to insert a chart. This time, students could choose between the different representations Google Spreadsheets offers; bar chart, column chart, line chart or scatter chart. Each student was also able to name their chart.
It was really exciting seeing which option got the most votes and which got the fewest. It was also interesting to discuss why this might be and what variables may have influenced the audience's answers! Who knew data could be this much fun?! TodayToday Mrs. Boyden's first and second graders began coding. We used the "Puppy Adventure" puzzles and began together with puzzle #1. Students went through the challenges, some making it all the way to puzzle #9!
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