rocks Archives ⋆ R.E.A.L.-World Learners https://realworldlearners.com/tag/rocks/ Engaging, authentic learning resources for students of all ages Thu, 14 Mar 2019 00:29:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://realworldlearners.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/cropped-8516c9f3047b5127c72aba019d664e56-32x32.jpeg rocks Archives ⋆ R.E.A.L.-World Learners https://realworldlearners.com/tag/rocks/ 32 32 Math Monday: Exponential growth (for young kids) https://realworldlearners.com/math-monday-exponential-growth-for-young-kids/ https://realworldlearners.com/math-monday-exponential-growth-for-young-kids/#comments Thu, 14 Sep 2017 04:53:09 +0000 https://realworldlearners.com/?p=300 On the ride back home we talked about how if he throws one rock down the mountain it might knock loose two more rocks, which isn't really a problem -- except that each of those rocks might knock two more rocks (to keep the math simple) and each of those rocks might knock two more rocks each, and pretty quickly all the rocks are falling down the mountain. N looked properly terrified. 
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]]> https://realworldlearners.com/math-monday-exponential-growth-for-young-kids/feed/ 6 Spelling for Fun https://realworldlearners.com/spelling-for-fun/ https://realworldlearners.com/spelling-for-fun/#respond Wed, 13 Sep 2017 19:41:58 +0000 https://realworldlearners.com/?p=105 ... I suggested he put random letters on the bag or try to write words with the stickers. He wanted to write "N's amazing rock collection" but settled for "rocks." This simple activity spurred some great learning moments:

He sounded out the word and decided he needed the letters R O C. I asked what other letter made a "cah" sound and he remembered that K did. We talked about how English is a silly language because people a long time ago made it up by combining a lot of different rules and then they changed most of those rules, so here we are today using two letters that make the same sound to spell a simple word like Rock. He was okay with that. 

He knew he needed to add an S but couldn't explain why, so I reminded him that adding an S makes things plural. I'd never taught him this before, but he learned it somewhere. ... Read more...

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