Monthly Archives: January 2010
January 31 – Air Force Track Meet
Eight jumps and nearly ten hours later, the Martin Luther King Invitational Track Meet finally ended. Cole placed 17th in the long jump and 9th in the Triple Jump. Not too shabby for a 14 yr-old competing against 18yr-olds.
January 29 – Counting by ten
In kindergarten. These boys had measured the length of the rug in unit cubes and immediately one started breaking the long stick into groups of ten.
January 25 – Math Playground
I had to kick my students out of Math Club again this week. This fourth-grader is finding equivalent fractions with the new Guide the Gecko game.
January 24 – Indoor track
Cole is on an indoor track club. Today’s meet was held at the Balch Fieldhouse at CU-Boulder, which is attached to their football stadium. They were running a 60 meter race while I was watching the long jump. We had … Continue reading
January 23 – Chandelier
I was at a conference and really liked the way the lights looked from directly underneath. People kept asking me what I was taking pictures of.