I started this week having the students fill out brackets with me. I haven't done this since college and it was fun to share this collegiate tradition with them.
A couple of my girls are really interested in WNBA and so I told them the story about college basketball & the UConn Woman's team who set a record of winning 107 consecutive games in a row.
As review for our upcoming state assessment, I also made some brackets for the students to compete in. There is Math, PE, Art, and Language Arts. Each student gets to compete in 2 events in the 1st round. I know I paired them up right because I heard things like
"I'm so glad I'm in Math and PE, those are my favorite"
"I'm happy that I'm in Language Arts and Art because I'm not as good at PE and Math"
Some wanted to be in more than 1 event, I had it set up that all could compete for fun and only those who were in the bracket would move along in that event.
Day 1 had the Mathletes competing in time trials for the 1 and 2 times tables. The Artists had a pictionary type face-off drawing the same items (submarine, spagheti, Ice fishing, and quacking).
LET THE MADNESS BEGIN!!!! :)
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