We practiced folding and cutting to make lanterns today. We will have some buddy time to read and create together before the week is over. We are revisiting the elements of "celebration" "culture" "heritage" and connecting to the "past" as we learn a little about Chinese New Year customs and traditions of remembering "ancestors" during this 15 day festival time.
To make a paper lantern:
1) fold a paper the "landscape" direction, so you have a really long skinny paper
2) cut strips from the fold to the open edge, but don't cut all the way!
3) then roll the paper the "portrait" direction
4) glue or tape so that you have a "cylinder" type shape for a lantern
We are planning to create decorative papers for our good copy, with an added inside piece of paper to act as a stabilizer and "glow" look of the inside of a lantern.
Have you tried the "Spin to 10" or "Place Value Pathway" games?
We continue practicing to make numbers to 100 using rods and ones (or tens and ones) as place value representations of numbers; ie 86 would show 8 rods in the tens column and 6 ones in the ones column. We are learning that as soon as the ones column changes from 9 ones to 10 that we trade those 10 ones in to represent the amount with 1 rod - this shows us that the 0's in 10, 20, 30... to 90 and 100 are not just a symbol for a number - that they are important "value" markers that make a difference between a single digit and a double digit number and "how much" or the "value" of what they represent.
One of our goals is to see and work with the concept that 100 is made of 100 individual ones but can be represented, counted and written more efficiently, as 10, 10 rods. At the same time we need the understanding that every 10 represents 10 ones or 10 of something as an amount, so every number could be represented as ones - many piles of ones for larger numbers! Skip counting, grouping sets of 2, or 5 and representing numbers in a base of 10 helps us manage and represent numbers more efficiently!
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