Turn Up the "Volume"!

With the end of the school year in sight (although when kids ask how many days are left, I respond "Not enough"), we are starting to focus on our last student learning expectation (SLE): volume! To kick off this SLE study, I created a video on the usefulness of volume when laying mulch. You can find that on our class web page. Today we also set up our "Guess How Many..." to see if we could use a formula for volume to put forth a great guess. By the end of the year, your child should be able to look at a 3-D shape (with cubes drawn) and tell how many cubes are shown. I have some more fun activities left to help us with the SLE. Tomorrow's homework will show some problems expected to be mastered on the SLE test. Thanks for your support at home as well!

How many cubes do you think are in each jar?