First Day of 3rd Grade

I'm not sure if its 3rd Grade, having 9 students in class, or the great community but this "First Day" just breezed by. Wow!

I have "Center Time" scheduled into my day after our reading block and our math block. I figure that I can use this time to do interventions while the others are occupied. However since it was the first day, the students were just encourage to explore what they wanted to and they took full advantage of the makerspace!

Some of the girls decided they wanted to make a kite and set out designing it using straws, crepe paper, and string... Another wanted to make set and used cups with paper crinkled inside or outside to make different sounds... 

We also did the Global Math Twitter Team Challenge (http://gmttc.blogspot.com/) The kids LOVED problem-solving. We had to use the numbers (2, 4, 2, 4) and make an equation that equaled 24. They figured it out. This was the first time using multiplications, so I modeled using dots and they got it!