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=  Student Activities for April 25-April 29 =

=**__Monday:__** = ===**Today you will complete 3 assignments. You will start to fill out the KWL chart, complete and online scavenger hunt and create a fraction. You must do these activities in the order they are listed.**===

**--KWL Chart **
1. I have put a KWL chart in your fraction folder, so take it out. 2. Fill out the K and W columns about fractions. 3. In the K column, you will write what you already know about fractions. 4. In the W column, you will write what you want to know about fractions. 5. Leave the L column empty for now. 5. When you are finished, put it back in your fraction folder.

**--Scavenger Hunt **
Directions: Answer each question by clicking on the word that is underlined. When you click these words, it will take you to a website where you will be able to find the answers to the questions. Copy and paste these questions into Microsoft word and type your answers there. When you are finished, print out the page with the questions and your answers and put it in your fraction folder, which I will collect on Friday. 1. What is a [|fraction]? 2. In a fraction, what does the [|denominator] tell us? 3. In a fraction, what does the [|numerator] tell us? 4. True/False: The denominator can never be equal to [|zero]. 5. True/False: [|Equivalent] fractions do not have the same value.

**<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">--Create a fraction **
<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">You just learned the parts of a fraction, so you are ready to make your own. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">1. Go to the art station and get a piece of construction paper and any other materials you want to make your fraction. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">2. Write a fraction on the piece of paper. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">3. Draw a picture that matches your fraction on the piece of paper. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">4. Put your piece of paper with your fraction and picture on it into your fraction folder. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">5. Put away all of the materials you used. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">6. Have fun and be creative!

=<span style="color: #1a12ab; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">**__Tuesday:__** =

**<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">--Make One Game **
<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">1. Get out your fraction kit and meet with your group in an area of the classroom. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">2. Once you have an area, one of your group members should come see me to get dice for the game you will be playing. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">3. Each group member will have a turn rolling a dice, when all of you have had a turn, you are finished with the game. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">4. The die has 6 sides, 1 side has a one-half on it, 1 side has a one-fourth, 2 sides have a one-eighth, and 2 sides have a one-sixteenth. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">5. The first person will roll the die and tell everyone else what they have rolled, you will put the piece that represents that fraction on your red piece of construction paper, which is one whole. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">6. The first person will keep doing this until one person has their red piece filled perfectly. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">7. You will keep doing this until everyone has had a turn to roll the die. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">8. Have fun!

**<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">--Fraction Matching Game **
<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">1. One person from the group needs to get a bag of fraction cards from the group bin. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">2. Lay all of the cards upside down and mix them up. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">3. The first player will flip over 2 cards, if the fractions shown on the cards are equivalent, they will keep both cards. If the fractions shown aren't equivalent, they are flipped back upside down. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">4. The next player will do the same thing, everyone will take turns until their are no cards left. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">5. The player who has the most cards at the end is the winner. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">6. Have fun!

=<span style="color: #1b13aa; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">__Wednesday:__ =

**--Video: [|How to use a digital camera]**
<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">1. Click on the link above. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">2. Watch this video as a group before you start to take your pictures. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">3. Use the skills taught in the video when taking your pictures

**--Digital Fraction Pictures**
<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">1. One person from the group needs to get your group's digital camera from the bin. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">2. As a group, you will walk around the school and take 8 pictures that you can use to make a fraction. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">3. Each person in your group should take 2 pictures. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">4. When you have your pictures, you will come back and load the pictures onto the computer. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">5. Print each of the pictures out. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">6. Glue them on a piece of construction paper and write the fraction that matches them and a sentence to go along with it. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">7. Have fun and be creative when taking your pictures!

=<span style="color: #1b13aa; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">**__Thursday:__** = ===Today you will be playing different fraction games. You may complete these activities in any order. You are not required to write down any of the questions or answers while playing the games, but you must be ready to tell me what activities you completed and what you learned.===

**<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">--[|Action Fraction game] **
<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">1. Click on the link above. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">2. Follow the directions given for playing the game. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">3. Try to get as far as you can in the game. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">4. Have fun!

**<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">--Leapfrog Leapster Explorer Learning Game SpongeBob SquarePants fists of foam **
<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">1. Go to the game center and use the leapfrog. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">2. Put the SpongeBob game in and only play this one. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">3. Have fun!

**<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">--Fast Rabbit Software Fraction Master **
<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">1. Click on the Fast Rabbit Fraction Master link on the computer's desktop. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">2. Follow the instructions on how to play. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">3. Try to complete each part: Identifying, Reducing, Adding, Subtracting, and Estimating <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia,serif;">4. Have fun!

**<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia,serif;">--[|Tony Fraction's Pizza Shop] **
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia,serif;">1. Click on the link above. <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia,serif;">2. Follow the directions to play the game. <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia,serif;">3. Try to make 5 pizzas correctly. <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia,serif;">4. Have fun!

=<span style="color: #1b13aa; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">**__Friday:__** = ===<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Today you are going to be online looking at recipes. You will need to work with your group for these assignments. They are a little bit more challenging, but you all have learned a lot this week. Work with your group to figure out what you need to do each ingredient. ===

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**--Recipes online:**
<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">1. Look at the recipe for [|Baked Macaroni and Cheese] <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">2. This recipe is for 5 people, but you want to be able to feed 10 people. You will need to double the recipe. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">3. Use Microsoft Word to type up the new recipe that has the same ingredients but double the amount. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">4. Find a picture on the computer that goes with this recipe and put it in your Microsft Word document with you recipe. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">5. Print the recipe out and put it in your fraction folder. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">6. Make sure everyone in your group prints one out for their folder. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">7. If you have more time, go online and try to find another recipe that uses fractions and double it. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">8. Have fun!