Playing with mathematics.

Here are some games to motivate students with mathematics.

1. Addition using LEGO. 

2 tens and 6 units + 1 ten and 5 units...

= 3 tens and 11 units

then, we group the units: 4 tens and 1 unit.

2. Paper fortune teller + dice.

We write multiplications on the fotune teller paper and roll the dice...

3. Plastic cups. 

They are perfect to represent HUNDREDS, TENS and UNITS. 

4. Mental calculation.

I use popsicle sticks to match a pair of students...

I say a number, then roll the dice and we add it or substract it. 

The fastest student passes to the next round.

Maths Club

Fourth grade students learn how to build solids that meet certain conditions. They try, analyse different solutions, draw conclusions and generalize - all this with Lego blocks during maths club activities.

by Ewa Zielińska

Van Gogh

We worked on an artistic project about the painting of VAN GOGH named
"La chambre de Van gogh a Arles".

The class was divided INTO 2 groups: those WHO worked on the draw and the others WHO worked on the model.

For that job, we used painting, markers, chalks, small objects, cardboards, shoes boxes, legos .

Thanks to this project, we could work on geometry, shapes, colours descriptions and fauvism.

We displayed our works in the hall of our School.

A talking tower

A main aim in language learning is talking about an event. The children should learn to speak in whole sentences and fluently- first in their mother tongue.
I used six bricks to help them to match and remember the sentences. In year 1 the sentences are easy. It was an event in the past. You can also use the present form.

The thunderstorm (white brick)
The clouds became black.
It started to rain cats and dogs.
The meadow became wet.
The firebrigade had to come and help.
After all the sun was shining again.

 It was a thunderstorm the weekend before. The children built the sentences out of their experiences according the colour of the brick I showed to them. After each brick we spoke the story. Then the children wrote the words, drawed the colours and pictures. The next lesson they can tell the story with the bricks in the hand to a partner, create a written story or a drawing.
Children enjoyed. They have spoken clearly and fluently.
Silvia Hoffmann

The talking tower

Colours- words- pictures

Unfortunately the colours are not visible.

Dissemination in kindergarten

In kindergarten number 58 teachers from our school presented the use of Lego blocks. Children learnt about the symmetry. They found it in their bodies and nature.  Then they happily opened Lego boxes and built butterflies, gardens and other buildings - everything perfectly symmetrical. 

by Iwona Tylman

      Marzanna Karpińska

Maths in junior high school

Students are looking for the answer to the question about the sum of consecutive odd numbers. When working, they find the relationship between the sum and square numbers.

                                                           by Ewa Zielińska

Maths & Polish

Maths faculty - Students explore the secrets of the relationship between the surface and volume of similar figures on a scale of 2: 1 and 3: 1. Lego blocks allow for quick fixes and the selection of infinite examples for testing. Different systems of counting were also introduced. The blocks contributed to the rapid adoption of the rules for swapping binary and trinary numbers into decimal and vice versa.

Polish - "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" - Class IV learned about the world of Roald Dahl and created it. Students used LEGO bricks and built the factory of Mr. Wonka. They split into groups of
builders and started working. They created a factory building, Chocolate Hall, candy boats carrying hcharacters down the chocolate river, the tube that drew Augustus Gloop and many other interesting things.The students let go of the fantasy and found that such lessons with reading "this is it"!

by Ewa Zielińska
and Magdalena Gierasimiuk

The Earth Day

The 22nd of April is the day when we give tribute to our Mother Earth. We help to recycle, clean forests, save water and do other possible things. In our school we went back to the rap about the earth:

http://creatingtomorrowschoolstoday.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-international-earth-day-coming-soon.html

Then we read the raps written by our collegues:

http://creatingtomorrowschoolstoday.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-earth-day-raps.html

And finally, we asked ourselves what we treasured most about our planet.

This is what we came up with:

We also tried to find out how to help our planet:

And wrote short poems which we built with Lego:

And how was the Earth Day celebrated in your school? Please, let us know.

                                by Joanna Cudowska-Kolendo

                                and Agnieszka Zarachowicz