First Day of School; Fun Learning!

What a great day! First I had the students write very neatly, in good complete sentences five important facts about themselves. I told them it was their first assignment! Then I asked them to hold them up so I could see them. They were all so serious and diligent, until I told them to crumple them up and throw them! "Snowball Fight!" They loved it! When I rang the bell, they stopped immediately, picked up one and opened it so they could read it. We took turns reading them aloud and guessing who's paper it was! SNOWBALL FIGHTS!

SPAGHETTI & MARSHMALLOW TOWERS I challenged the students to work in small groups to build the tallest, best built tower. They got 5 minutes of of individual planning time, then their group got ten more minutes of group planning time. The hitch was...they could NOT talk at all during the actual construction. No mouthing words, no talking, no writing notes. No verbal language. So they had to come up with alternative ways to communicate, divide the jobs, and cooperate together. After we discussed what worked and what didn't. The students loved it!

Such fun learning!