At the beginning of the year, the kids made "bean-sticks" to use with math. On wooden craft sticks, they glued pinto beans, 10 on each stick. They each have a set of 10 bean-sticks and 12, or so, loose beans to work with on place value. We hadn't worked with them for a couple of days, and I thought it would be good to bring them back out. When the kids pulled out their bean-sticks during math, I heard an unusual amount of giggling from the back of the class. One little girl was having a hard time completing the task of taking out her bean-sticks out of her math bag, and as soon as I walked over, I knew why. Over the course of a week, her beans had begun to sprout on the wooden craft sticks! Her math bag had become a personal garden for her pinto beans. Needless to say, we had a mini-science lesson within math today. With some thing, you just have to take a time-out from the norm!
Out of the Mouths of Babes....
Student #1: "When I grow up, I want to be an Avatar."
Student #2: "Jesus was an Avatar."
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