Luis Munoz Marin School and Walton School
Gifted Intervention Specialist
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Students this week had the chance to personalize either folders and water bottles this week with vinyl stickers. The students chose their favorite colors and design with their names. The students smiles show how much they love their personalized projects!
Did you know that a horse only sleeps (on average) 3 hours a day? These students are reading about different animals and then turning the sleeping hours into fractions. If a horse sleeps 3 hours a day, that is 1/8 of the day! These students also are working on adding and subtracting fractions using these same animal numbers. 
2nd and 3rd Graders at Walton can't wait to hear a good story! Here they are reading about Jean Labadie's Big Black Dog! You want to know the secret? Jean doesn't actually own a dog. He just makes up the story to keep his pesky neighbors away from his property after some of his chickens have gone missing. The real problem is that the crazy neighbor believes in the Big Black dog and convinces everyone in town to believe in the Big Black Dog, too! Crazy! 
Happy Holidays to those of you who celebrate. This December the students created a Tessellation Tree in our classroom. This tree is more than just a colorful triangle. It is also is a Math Puzzle to solve! Do you see any patterns? The students quickly noted that the number of "trees" needed for each row was increasing by 2's and was always an odd number: 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, etc. Then the students noticed a bigger pattern. If you count the number of trees needed for 1 row, 2, rows, 3 rows, the numbers go like this: 1, 4, 9, 16, 25, 36, 49, 64, 81, 100. Do you see the pattern yet? Discuss the patterns with your student and predict how many trees you would need for a tree 25 rows tall. There is a way to solve this problem and predict the answer for any row!
Check out these Math students. They are solving problems using fractions and then using the clues given to solve a Math mystery. Who will solve the mystery first? The students work in teams or compete against their classmates to become the best sleuth! 🕵🕵🕵 
This week our LMM 5th graders worked with Mean, Median, Mode, and Range. The students created a statistical question and researched a data set. The students then used Mean, Median, Mode, and Range to answer their statistical questions.
In our 4th/5th grade class at Walton we have been reading Serafina and the Black Cloak. This is a suspenseful mystery book with quite a few spooky surprises! So far we have read about a mysterious man in a black cloak, Serafina's mysterious beginnings, and a missing girl in a yellow dress. .jpg)
The story takes place at the Biltmore Estate a real life mansion in North Carolina. We have watch some videos and have been studying pictures of the mansion to see where the story takes place. 
This week our sixth grade Math students at both Walton and Luis Munoz Marin are learning about rational and irrational numbers. We started out the year with adding and subtraction integers (positive and negative whole numbers) and then we moved onto fractions, decimals, and percentages including terminating and repeating decimals. Don't forget, students, a repeating decimal CAN be written as a fraction so it IS a rational number!!
